‘Too slow for the road … too fast for the sidewalk’: Lake Worth Beach grapples with e-bike safety concerns

Residents in Lake Worth Beach are raising safety concerns about electric bikes and scooters traveling at high speeds on sidewalks, joining a growing debate across Palm Beach County about regulating these vehicles in pedestrian areas.

On the Lake Worth Beach boardwalk, pedestrians say electric bikes are moving too fast for safe pedestrian traffic.

“I think that the e-bikes are too slow for the road, and they’re too fast for the sidewalk, and that’s the problem,” one resident said…

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