Bad headline.
It’s about speed limits for electric bikes/scooters to protect pedestrians.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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From the coverage that I read in my national newspaper (which admittedly isn't Slovakian) the speed limit applies to everyone on the sidewalk. Not just to e-bikes and e-scooters, but also to pedestrians.
The speed limit is set to 6 km/h. Joggers and people making a sprint to catch a bus, would easily be breaking that speed limit.
My regular walking speed is 8km/h… when I run distances it’s ~13km/h, and if I’m sprinting it can be over 20km/h.
They’re essentially saying the speed limit is set to swimming pool deck speeds.
The Slovak parliament Tuesday afternoon adopted an amendment to the traffic law that sets a maximum permitted speed on sidewalks in urban areas at 6 kph.
It's a blanket speed limit for the sidewalk, so no it's not only about ebike and escooter, which mean you can't walk like a rushing businessman catching bus, or running to catch your escaping cat. Your baby stroller is rolling downhil and you're running at it to save your baby? Too bad, you get two ticket.
That's a bad interpretation of the law. The law defines a max walking speed as 6 km/h. That's a definition, not a speed limit. It will be used to clarify existing laws that already prescribe the movement of bicycles or scoters "at walking speed" on footpaths. Slovakia isn't the first country to do that, either.
Great calling out the calling out. 👌
Why are they allowed on sidewalks in the first place?
Not sure but maybe because street is not secure, due to lack of room or smthg like this. From some point of view it's riskier for a cyclist to get hit by a car than it is for a pedestrian to get hit by a bicycle.
Yeah that has to be the dumbest shit I've read today, and I've read a lot of dumb shit.