PUBLIC SAFETY – Council directs MBPD: no more e-bike warnings
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night adopted a zero-tolerance approach to young e-bike riders who violate traffic laws, whether it’s running a red light or riding without a helmet. No more warnings, the council instructed the chief of police: Manhattan Beach Police Department officers should ticket every infraction they witness. “Now we go from carrot to stick,” said Mayor Richard Montgomery. The directive came after the council received a report from MBPD Captain Andrew Enriquez about the department’s efforts to both educate young e-bike riders and step up enforcement. Enriquez said the department recognized the growing number of young e-bike riders shortly after the pandemic receded, and began educational outreach. School resource officers helped organize school assemblies about “the rules of the road,” pamphlets were disturbed at bike shops, and even last year’s Junior Lifeguard class received e-bike safety information. As this year’s school year ended, Enriquez said, MBPD and other local agencies conducted five different one-day enforcement operations — eight-hour operations in which officers monitored locations known to be troublesome in terms…
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