Los Altos bans bicycles and e-bikes from its sidewalks

Citing residents complaints about unsafe use of e-bikes the Los Altos City Council replaced the city s bicycle ordinance with one that imposes new restrictions including a ban on sidewalk riding Related Articles What s with the endless construction ripping up Uptown Oakland s streets What are California s rules about kids on electric bikes Letters National Guard deployment in Los Angeles threatens rights of all Like getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert State functionaries pledge improvements to botched e-bike signups Letters Where is Newsom as refinery closures threaten state financial system The new ordinance presented at the June council meeting includes these restrictions for bicycles electric bicycles motorized scooters and similar vehicles No riding on sidewalks or pedestrian paths No more than two riders side by side on a roadway Only one rider per e-bike or e-scooter unless it s designed to carry more No trick riding A helmet is required for anyone under An exemption to the sidewalk ban is allowed in circumstances when riding in the street would be unsafe The ordinance embedded below takes effect days after its approval Penalties for violators start at for a first offense and top out at California has certain statewide rules about operation of electric bikes municipalities are allowed to impose their own ordinances What are California s rules about kids on electric bikes This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e evidence if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i