{"id":63800,"date":"2018-11-23T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-council-gives-final-ok-to-e-bikes\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:54:34","slug":"city-council-gives-final-ok-to-e-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-council-gives-final-ok-to-e-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council gives final OK to e-bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3316927e-a7bf-4501-9e23-1d2b9d784362&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1144\" alt=\"The Durango City Council made it official this week: E-bikes will be allowed on paved trails in the city, including the Animas River Trail.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Durango City Council made it official this week: E-bikes will be allowed on paved trails in the city, including the Animas River Trail.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Durango City Council has directed staff to revamp a long-standing ban on motorized vehicles on city trails, a rule change that will allow electric bicycles, or e-bikes, on paved trails in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The rule change is the result of more than a year of work among three resident committees to determine whether e-bikes would be suitable on paved city trails. The city undertook a yearlong trial period in which e-bikes were allowed on city trails, and although the Parks and Recreation Department sought comments, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t receive a single complaint about e-bikes on city paved trails.<\/p>\n<p>The joint advisory boards tasked with determining how to allow e-bikes on city paths <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/247329\">unanimously recommended the new rule<\/a> to the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rules would allow e-bikes on the Animas River Trail, the sidewalk along Florida Road, the Goeglein Gulch Road Trail, SMART 160 Trail and the Three Springs Trail.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5c7d7762-917b-45ef-b2c4-e5b567ba16a0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"E-bikes are allowed on the Animas River Trail, the sidewalk along Florida Road, Goeglein Gulch Road Trail, SMART 160 Trail and the Three Springs Trail.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">E-bikes are allowed on the Animas River Trail, the sidewalk along Florida Road, Goeglein Gulch Road Trail, SMART 160 Trail and the Three Springs Trail.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of city of Durango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The city proposed allowing Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes. Class 1 e-bikes are those that assist riders while pedaling but not otherwise. Class 2 e-bikes have the capability to propel a bicycle without pedaling up to 20 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to allow e-bikes <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/150828\">comes at the request of residents<\/a>, said Cathy Metz, director of Parks and Recreation. E-bikes have become popular worldwide, and cities around the country have been grappling with how to allow the machines to operate safely on roadways.<\/p>\n<p>One thing Durango will deal with in coming months is whether e-bikes should be allowed on unpaved city trails. Metz said many cities around the nation do not allow e-bikes on natural surface trails, but it is something the advisory boards have at least expressed interest in considering.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">bhauff@ durangoherald.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorized bicycles will be allowed on paved trails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1741,29,3457,259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-63800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river-trail","tag-newsletter","tag-three-springs","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63800"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=63800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}