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"Alda Simoes, 47, has called for Transport for London to ban e-bikes from trains and stations in the wake of Sofia Duarte’s death in a “ferocious fire” on New Year’s Day in 2023.
The 21-year-old had gone to her boyfriend’s home on Old Kent Road from her job at a nightclub shortly before a fire started in a lithium battery power pack for an e-bike which was placed near the front door of the building to charge."
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They park them under buildings though.
So they ban ebikes from public transport (not distinguishing between "proper" ones and ebay jobbies and even though this fire was in a flat while the battery was being charged) and we're down yet another mixed mode transport option. Meanwhile over in car land...