E-bikes on trails ... a good idea?

[prooftheory]

@RickMycroft

Make sure the definition of e-bike is good and tight.

As @Otherbrother points out below though, such vehicles are already always allowed for disabled people currently.

@Otherbrother

@prooftheory

The ADA definition of wheelchair says that a wheelchair has to be designed to be able to go indoors. This thing doesn’t count for that though, does it?

Check out the Department of Justice revised rules that went into effect on March 15, 2011 that explicitly discuss “other power-driven mobility devices” that may be used on trails by individuals with mobility disabilities.

https://www.americantrails.org/resources/basic-facts-on-department-of-justice-rule-on-power-driven-mobility-devices-for-accessibility

This applies to “any place, indoors or outdoors, that is open to the public.”

This guy clearly had a legal right to use this bike here. Can we move past that part of the discussion?

The actual text of this rule is really hard for me to figure out. There is a reading of it where it says that you have to let someone drive a motocycle into the opera house and you aren’t even allowed to ask if they are disabled.