Re: New York's Crackdown on Ebikes

Roger Merriman wrote:

 London so urban to Suburban, I’m outer london so mainly suburban, lower
speed limits 20mph is common, almost certainly and reasonably chance of it
being enforced aka speed cameras.

Just curious -- are you inside or outside of the M25?

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We also have several canals (including one right next to my house) that
have dedicated multi-use paths on one side of the canal.  These are more
or less municipal paths, and very much a magnet for recreational use,
ranging from simple pedestrians to serious cyclists. On the other side
of the canal (at least in the space near my house) what's there is
essentially a service road that is owned by the water utility that
operates the canal. In some places, the service road is paved (and also
suitable for cycling, as it's even wider than the multi-use path), but
only a mile in either direction, the surface is gravel.
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 Those are lovely places but not particularly useful for utility purposes as
they are narrow and is limited as to how many can useful use such places.

Besides passing visual similarities, the two are entirely different situations.
In Europe, I think that most canals tend to be done to facilitate drainage, especially working around population density. Where I am, the space is flat and very spread out.  Our canal system was actually built several hundred years before the first European or Euro-American settlers.  The Europeans modified somewhat with more modern engineering, but for both, the intent of the canals is to move water from the river system into places that it can be used for agricultural irrigation.
Smith