'License e-bikes alongside other motor vehicles' - Reader's letter
Letter writer Matthew Smith believes the solution to e-bike issues must be to license them...
The deluge of e-scooters and e-bikes on our roads is an inconvenience, but we must remember that this is down primarily to the lack of public transport.
In areas such as Tinsley and Darnall, whose economy relies on shift workers working through the night and at all hours god sends, hours which do not always match up with the availability of bus services, especially in areas such as Bawtry Road, Tinsley, along with the failure of the government to legislate on the licensing of e-bikes and e-scooters.
The solution must be to license them alongside other motor vehicles or to provide much better public transport tailored to the needs of shift workers and anyone else forced to use e-bikes and e-scooters.
Penalising people who genuinely need them is wrong.