KRCB NEWS: How did you find that story? Was that story assigned to you or is that something that you pitched to the New York Times Magazine? What was the genesis of that?
DAVID DARLINGTON: It was something I pitched. I am a longtime—lifelong, really—cyclist myself and riding in the East Bay, over the last several years, intensifying during the pandemic, started noticing, a great proliferation of electric bikes and I witnessed a couple of….shall we say close calls or near disasters on bike paths where I saw people on e-bikes apparently not being very familiar with kind of cycling etiquette and safe practices on bike paths. E-bikes go really fast going faster than the surrounding people and cyclists and pedestrians would warrant. So I just started researching e-bikes as a topic because I’m a freelance journalist and I’m a cyclist. I’ve written in the past a lot for Bicycling Magazine.
KRCB NEWS: How did you find that specific case in Marin….the gal in Marin?…