<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4P5yHs_1Gp07fnf00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4P5yHs_1Gp07fnf00" width="1429" height="869" ><figcaption>An e-bike or scooter rider travels through Monteith Riverpark on Oct. 28, 2026.</figcaption></figure>E-bikes came up at the Albany City Council meeting Wednesday, but don’t expect the council to enact any new rules.Instead, the city police are reminding adults and children of the state regulations covering different classes of electric bikes or scooters.“Maybe you have noticed the influx of faster, more powerful e-bikes and e-scooters and witnessed some dangerous riders around town… Yeah, us too,” the police department said on Facebook.“We have been educating and warning riders but that doesn’t seem to be enough. Operation E-bike-Safe Streets is launching on Monday,” the department said on Oct. 9. “Know the rules and ride responsibly because we will have extra enforcement on patrol.”At Wednesday night’s council meeting, Mayor Alex Johnson II said he had received complaints about e-bikes and wondered if the city could do something more by way of enforcement.“I, too, have heard from a lot of people about it,” City Manager Peter Troedsson said. “Actually I have experienced quite a bit of it. I’ve been traveling in a couple of big cities that I’ve lived in before that have bike lanes. It’s quite disconcerting to have a bike whizz past you at 30 miles an hour without making a sound.”But, Troedsson went on, while Albany does have quite a few people riding e-bikes or scooters, “at this point we haven’t identified a gap in the current state framework that would require any kind of local ordinance or anything in that regard.”The city had done “some enforcement and education directed at parents and schools,” Troedsson said, “and they’ve been well received by parents and schools. Not so much by kids.”On its bike and walking trails, like the Periwinkle Bikepath, there are signs prohibiting motorized vehicles.Bikes or scooters with electric motors clearly are motorized vehicles, but could those signs be enforced? (hh)</div></body>

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E-bikes came up at the Albany City Council meeting Wednesday, but don’t expect the council to enact any new rules. Instead, the city police are reminding adults and children of the state regulations covering different classes of electric bikes or scooters. “Maybe you have noticed the influx of faster,...

E-bikes: City points to state’s regulation

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E-bikes came up at the Albany City Council meeting Wednesday, but don’t expect the council to enact any new rules. Instead, the city police are reminding a

E-bikes: City points to state’s regulation

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