What we need is TVs that don’t require an internet connection. I wanna stream stuff, but I’m very capable of booking up a streaming box or even an old laptop for that purpose.

Yeah, but sometimes (like last Wednesday) the app says the bus will arrive in e.g. 5 minutes, after a delay of 2 minutes. And then it still never shows up :)

Same here. Unfortunately the company that is taking over and now running the show is incompetent so it’s impossible to trust a bus that says it’s coming, to actually arrive on time, if at all. The Netherlands isn’t all sunshine and rainbows :')

Which is the difficulty in regulating this, unfortunately. But from what I understand, regular e-bikes aren’t as easy to modify as these fatbikes are. so it’d be a temp fix while manufacturers circumvent the ban’s specific phrasing.

The problem is that they don’t go above 25km/h out of the factory, they are (easily) modified to do so. And by default you need to paddle to propel yourself, but this is often bypassed as well.

These things are quite often modified to drive 40km/h, without paddling. And the brakes go unmaintained. much more often compared to regular bikes, according to ad.nl, which leads to difficulty stopping & as such very dangerous situations on intersections. I’m all for banning these, throughout the country.

Only half?

Username checks out. Also, same. The biggest cheat: keep moving it back by like a week or even a day at a time, because something always comes up that you’d feel bad for not doing first.