Riga Discovers E-bikes Can Be Registered — Liepāja Has Long Known Where to Put Things in Their Proper Places
The capital announces with great enthusiasm that e-bikes will need to be registered, while Liepāja has no such problems — here everything is already in its place.
Riga officials have announced with undisguised pride that starting in April, e-bikes will need to be registered and insured, as if they had discovered America. While the capital tries to figure out what an electric bicycle is and how to distinguish it from a regular one, here in Liepāja we've long known — if it rides, it belongs on the road; if it doesn't ride — at the port among the freshly caught fish.
Deputy Police Chief Andrejs Aronovs admitted that police lack the resources to monitor every bicycle. "We'll focus on aggressive riders," he said, apparently unaware that in Liepāja our tram driver Gunārs solved this problem long ago — he simply feeds everyone with his stare, and everyone peacefully rides in their own lane.
Riga Mayor Viesturs Kleinbergs promised to build 20 new pedestrian crossings, while here in Liepāja we've known for years that a crossing is where you need it — by the port, by the market, and by the "Fontaine Palace." No complicated planning, just common sense.
The best part is that so far only one person has registered their e-bike. Apparently the rest are waiting for Riga to figure out how to do it properly. We don't have such problems in Liepāja — if something rides and doesn't rumble like a fishing boat that just returned with caught fish, then it's transportation. If it rumbles — then it's either a boat or something that needs repairs.
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