To the editor:
The government spends millions of dollars pushing us to go green, yet the Durham E-bike club wants to have a ride around Oshawa to promote go green but now they are told by the City they have to buy a permit.
Either the government is behind going green or it should stop wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to promote it.
E-bikers have electric scooters which produce no pollution and create no fossil fuels, yet they are being punished for promoting it.
We have bylaws in Oshawa that prohibit bikes on the sidewalks downtown but I have yet to see that law enforced.
If the City persists with this permit idea, I will personally go downtown and forcibly take every bike rider down to the police station.
Do you really want to unleash something like that. Either enforce all the laws or none.
Bill Nagtzaam
Oshawa
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