To ban or not to ban: Xiamen's electric bicycles face controversy

[chinabiker]

.. Now, at a traffic light, perhaps only 2 or 3 will try and cross against the red ... the rest of the pack waits. Previously, nobody would ever wait.

My observation in Beijing is that 99 of 100 e-bikes are crossing at red - the one who doesn't has a defect

It is a long process requiring education, regulation and enforcement, but it can be done. And it has to start with the children.

Agree - It will take 50 years or more to get this into the brains of the majority of people.

One thing I would like to see in Beijing (which has fantastic bike lanes) is a crack down on the vehicles that are blocking the bicycle lanes, forcing all of the bikes to swerve into traffic. But this is unlikely to happen in a city that adds 2,200 new cars to the roads EVERY DAY.

The problem is that many BJ bicycle lanes are car-parking lanes also and therefore it's difficult to ban cars from those lanes.
BJ has a big parking space problem for cars!