{"id":193215,"date":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","slug":"councilman-campillo-proposes-age-passenger-rules-for-e-bikes-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193215\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilman Campillo proposes age, passenger rules for e-bikes in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; City Councilman Raul Campillo is proposing new e-bike regulations aimed at improving safety for children in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Campillo&#8217;s initiative would impose an age limit of 12 years, and would only allow passengers if the e-bike is specifically designed to accommodate multiple riders with a permanent second seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re proposing are clear, enforceable standards that will curb dangerous driving and result in safer streets for everyone,&#8221; Campillo said. &#8220;We need more common-sense legislation like this that will result in more protected and vibrant communities across the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A public outreach campaign would be launched if the City Council were to approve the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;E-bike safety has become a growing concern in neighborhoods across our city,&#8221; San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said. &#8220;SDPD fully supports regulations that provide clear, reasonable rules to allow officers to address unsafe behavior while keeping education at the forefront.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations would also offer a safety course as education- first diversion.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal will need to be approved by the council&#8217;s Public Safety Committee and then be brought to the full City Council for final approval.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; City Councilman Raul Campillo is proposing new e-bike regulations aimed at improving safety for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[90453,16786,74,90454,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-193215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-ebike-rules","9":"tag-raul-campillo","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-ebike-rules","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}