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A lot has been appearing in the blogosphere and traditional news media about electric bicycles. Long a transportation staple in China, India and the Far East, they have recently been gaining traction in the US market. Most of the articles written about this ultimate green vehicle have been slanted as something "new", "odd", or "trendy". This is unfortunate because it indicates that the product has not come anywhere close to being accepted as a genuine transportation alternative and given the honest assessment it deserves.

Until this product is seen as a genuine alternative to the automobile or noisy polluting gas scooter for short range transportation, it will never be given the serious political consideration it deserves. While bicycles, electric or otherwise require little in the way of infrastructure to be used successfully, they do require some assistance from the political establishment to encourage their use. Such encouragements are bike lanes, public bike racks, the ability to take bikes on public transportation and special bicycle right of way laws. Usually the argument against these encouragements go something like; "people don't really ride bicycles to work around here". This is not the chicken and egg situation that at first glance it appears to be. Ask the riders and they will usually respond that they would like to ride to work but a given city is not "friendly" to bicycle riders.

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