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E-bikes are popular indeed in Southwest Florida. And people ride them on the mainland all the time.

However, one place where it's completely illegal to ride an e-bike is Fort Myers Beach. That is correct. E-bikes are illegal on Estero Island/Fort Myers Beach. E-bikes can not be ridden on neither street, nor sidewalk, on Estero Island! Not even with the motor switched off and the bike in petal mode. In other words, if you are on an e-bike, stay off Estero Island!

E-bikes are also prohibited from riding on the beach as well.

If you are on the mainland heading to Estero Island, the closest you can get to Estero Island and Fort Myers Beach is the base of the Matanzas Pass Bridge on the San Carlos end. There is a steel railing on the San Carlos end of the Matanzas Pass Bridge. E-bikes can be locked to the railing, and the rider will need to cross the bridge on foot, e-bikes absolutely can not be brought onto Estero Island at all. You get caught on Estero Island/Fort Myers Beach in possession of a bike with a battery or motor attached, and it's up to 9 months at Lee County Jail.

Hence anyone you see riding an e-bike is already a criminal, not even afraid of ADX Florence or even the electric chair, they could even be already wanted for capital murder, terrorism, who knows. Also, any shops dealing with e-bikes on Estero Island are illegal businesses, as illegal as drug dealing.

Only regular petal bicycles without a motor are legal on Estero Island, and are subject to a speed limit of eight (8) miles per hour.

Anything that says it's legal to bring an e-bike onto Estero Island is false and a lie. E-bikes are ILLEGAL on Fort Myers Beach/Estero Island! They can NOT be ridden on neither street, beach, parking lot, nor sidewalk on Fort Myers Beach/Estero Island!

traveller wrote: ↑

September 13th, 2024, 11:09 pm

Anything that says it's legal to bring an e-bike onto Estero Island is false and a lie. E-bikes are ILLEGAL on Fort Myers Beach/Estero Island! They can NOT be ridden on neither street, beach, parking lot, nor sidewalk on Fort Myers Beach/Estero Island!

American prisons and hospitals are commercialized sources of income for state and Federal governments. Every time someone gets injured and ends up in the hospital or gets arrested and thrown in prison, the government makes money. There was a news broadcaster in the Fort Myers area that revealed Fort Myers Beach's city/islandwide ban on e-bikes, including the illegality of operating e-bikes on both street and sidewalk on Estero Island, and that broadcaster now is serving 90 years in prison for felony economic theft! But that news broadcaster and desk anchor that said that e-bikes are illegal in the town of Fort Myers Beach is absolutely correct! E-bikes are completely illegal within the Town of Fort Myers Beach and they absolutely can not be ridden at all on Estero Island. Not on the street, not on the beach, and not on the sidewalk. There are innumerable laws in the USA that are kept top secret by the FBI, and revealing those laws to the public will in fact get you tracked down and arrested for economic theft. Those laws include the illegality of men approaching women and men asking women out, and laws such as Fort Myers Beach's city/islandwide ban on e-bikes. Revealing those laws to the public causes hospitals, jails, prisons, and to an extent, county, state, and Federal governments, to lose money, and is in fact the equivalent of robbing the government.

The town of Fort Myers Beach and the Lee County Sheriff like to tell e-bikers to go to Estero Island, but ride in the street, because they want people on e-bikes to get hit by cars and end up in the hospital, and also so they can arrest e-bikers and throw them in jail. That news anchor was correct, the Fort Myers Beach Police Department and the Lee County Sheriff will arrest you and throw you in jail for riding an e-bike on Estero Island, including in the street. And the more e-bikers that get hit by cars or arrested and thrown in jail, and the more e-bikes that are destroyed in collisions, the more money the town of Fort Myers Beach and Lee County makes.

To begin with, America on the whole expects everyone to have an automobile! No bicycles, no e-bikes, no scooters, automobile only! There are already communities in the United States where it is illegal to enter on bike, on foot, in a taxi, or on public transportation, and you can not enter other than in an automobile. Those communities enforce such laws for crowd control. And it is but a matter of time before Fort Myers Beach bans all bikes, buses, trams, and taxis, and also passes new laws that no person shall enter the town except in an automobile, all for crowd control on the beach and at the restaurants. It is also very possible that Congress could follow suit and ban all bikes, scooters, and mopeds nationwide, and pass new Federal laws stating that anyone 21 years of age or older without an automobile is guilty of economic theft and faces 175 years to life in prison.

Also, the OP is correct. The penalty and consequence for riding and operating an e-bike within the Town of Fort Myers Beach on Estero Island, upon any street or sidewalk on the island, as well as on any beach on the island, is up to nine (9) months in county jail. At the same time, your e-bike would be confiscated by the police and auctioned off, you would never get your e-bike back.