As Oak Park moves forward, we hope, in adopting its thoroughgoing bike plan, we also appreciate the decision in River Forest to put at least some modest guardrails around the use of e-bikes and e-scooters.
Those are the devices which are always lurking, creeping, flying by you as you walk or drive. Surely you’ve had the experience of exclaiming to yourself as the 12-year-old kid with the five-year-old little brother hanging on to hips or handlebars go blithely along – neither with a helmet which might contain their brains in case of an accident.
In River Forest a new ordinance requires both headlights and taillights on all such amped up bikes and scooters. While we are not fans of cops stopping cars for a failed taillight we won’t mind seeing some enforcement mechanism in this circumstance. The ordinance which aligns the village with state code also assigns required ages to specific forms of transit.
Small progress but worthy.