Cars are a lost cause but maybe we can keep those e-bike deaths at 0 by banning them /s

Hey, having to avoid these pesky e-bikes on the public road without braking is very dangerous! /s

What were the scooters seized for though? For being scooters in use at night? For riding on sidewalks? If they are making it illegal to use them at night at all, it stands to reason they have been harassing them otherwise. Seizing, aka stealing 129 scooters is bullshit, the police should not be in the business of neither raising money through fines and fees nor seizing property.

Seriously, police should not get money they raise, the city shouldn't get it either, that's the only way this tax farming with the police ends. Fines should only be used to enforce the law, and it shouldn't be a go to method for that either.

The supposedly progressive city of houston is paying for a bunch of thugs that tax farm the poor and seize their often only means of transportation, based on often bad faith enforcements and laws.

For Safety reasons? GTFO, Houston needs new leaders as much as the democrats need new leaders anywhere, no wonder we are losing everywhere, even in the places we are winning we are losing because the enemy owns OUR party.

It's dangerous for a given definition of dangerous. Driving is dangerous for a different definition of dangerous.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/

Couldn't be in the Netherlands, any terrorist ebike is preventively thrown into the canal. Every other ebike too, just in case.

That’s ok, I’m sure anyone using them for transportation can easily use Houston’s excellent subway, right?

The thing is, they want poor people to have cars. Sure, they can't reasonably afford them, but they have to have them, so they take a loan and are stuck repaying it. This means they can't quit their jobs or do anything that could hurt their income. The banks also get to make extra income off of the loan.

I don't know what it's like in Houston and I know it's known for being car centric but where I live the Uber eats / door dash / whatever economy basically runs on those ebikes.

You can also guess the type of person riding them.

Just to help show how stupid of an idea it is (and how little the republicans in charge think about anything) it would have banned ragbrai.

https://ragbrai.com/

RAGBRAI, The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is an annual seven-day bicycle ride across the state from July 18-25, 2026. RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest, and longest recreational bicycle touring event in the world.

This rolling celebration of Iowa attracts participants from all 50 states and many foreign countries. It has covered thousands of miles through the years, and hundreds of thousands of riders have hopped in the saddle to pedal part of those miles.

If there was an extensive bike network instead of John Forster bullshit vehicular cycling, it would make a lot of sense.

But Iowa doesn’t have bicycle infrastructure.

The sad thing is, these big cities are heavy democrat. This is one of "our" guys.

My best bet, drivers rage about them like they do bicyclists, not following traffic laws, holding up traffic driving in it, demanding drivers don't hit them, and the mayor is playing to that road rage, while also scapegoating them for crime, as if cars aren't more guilty of any crime allegations.

Isn't that more of a problem with delivery services though? We don't have e-bikes here. Delivery drivers ride motorcycles. They still ride on sidewalks, filter between everything and run red lights. From what I understand this happens in places that use normal bikes too. Banning e-bikes will only help with the battery issue.

Another excuse to raise money by tax farming the poor, otherizing some group as undesirables then targeting them with draconian fines, seizures, and criminal charges.

The way policing is done in this country has to change, and first in our blue cities. It does nothing for public safety using the police to raise money, if anything it detracts from it. We shouldn't allow this behavior, if city leaders want to raise money they need to do it through taxes where we can collectively agree on a more fair framework for it, rather than stealing it from the vulnerable.