Making E-Biking Safer: How Improved Infrastructure Can Help

In our ongoing mission to improve e-bike safety, infrastructure improvements stand as a critical pillar — it’s a big part of our 6-point plan for e-bike safety. The good news is, we don’t need to reinvent the bicycle wheel. A great way to improve infrastructure is by following Vision Zero's plan. It might seem funny to have a 9-point plan buried inside our 6-point plan, but it's all about creating a meticulously detailed roadmap toward making transportation safer for everyone.

Vision Zero is about designing roads that protect everyone — whether you're walking, biking, driving, or taking the bus. Here are the 9 steps they recommend:

1. Political Commitment: Leaders like the Mayor and City Council should work to make roads safer for everyone.

2. Multi-Disciplinary Leadership: Create a team to lead the safety efforts.

3. Action Plan: Make a plan within a year to start improving safety.

4. Equity: Make sure everyone is included and treated fairly in the safety plans.

5. Cooperation and Collaboration: Work together with different groups to make roads safer.

6. Safe System Approach: Design roads that prevent accidents and protect people if accidents happen.

7. Data-Driven: Use data to find the biggest safety problems and fix them.

8. Community Engagement: Get the community involved in making roads safer.

9. Transparency: Keep everyone informed about progress and challenges.

By following Vision Zero's steps, we can make e-biking safer for everyone. To learn more about each of their strategies and how you can participate, visit VisionZeroNetwork.org. Together, we can make personal transportation safer for all!

And Then What?

As part of the Bellemont Project's six-point plan, infrastructure improvements must also go beyond our streets. Cities and their regions must seek to build sites that will draw teens out of intersections. With online influencers rewarding illegal and unsafe behaviors in street takeovers, it’s time we stopped allowing them to operate in a vacuum. Let’s provide infrastructure that speaks to their needs and rewards riding skills appropriately. Learn more about that in our next post.

Credit: Sur Ronster