The great e-bike crackdown has begun

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How it started

Last week, I did thing I don't typically do, which is telephone up 1 of my elected officials and outcry astatine them astir a caller bill.

New Jersey's car-brained lawmakers had conscionable passed authorities that would enforce dense restrictions connected e-bike ownership successful the state, and I was livid. Obviously there's been a batch of interest astir the increasing fig of teenagers being injured and killed w …

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