Redondo Beach Police report improved e-bike safety
A six-month e-bike report drew praise and encouragement from the Redondo Beach city council April 15 as police confirmed what councilmembers had seen anecdotally – further improved e-bike safety in town. The city council voted 5-0 for RBPD to give another report in a year, and for city staff to draft a letter of support for a bill written by State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) to ban e-bikes of 750 watts from roads. Redondo Beach Police Lt. Brian Long, special operations bureau, presented statistics since the department’s last update in August 2024. He tallied 150 calls to police in the past six months regarding e-bikes, the main reasons for alleged disobeying rules of the road, including stop signs and red lights. Police wrote 171 citations city-wide related to e-bikes, Long said, and impounded “several” e-bikes. Only four accidents were reported since last August, two with e-bikers deemed at fault. Each incident resulted in minor injuries. Police Chief Joe Hoffman, in a report to the council last August, totaled 135 e-bike citations in the previous six months, mainly for no-helmet, disobeying stop signs and illegal passengers. He noted then “a lot more enforcement…
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