As for the cycleways, by and large, I think they work well – although safe passing can indeed be an issue in some places, due to either the width of the separated path or the need to leave a painted lane and edge into vehicle traffic. There are also a number of places where the attack angle for bumps in the path (e.g. where the cycleway through Phillipstown crosses other roads) is rather steep and this makes for quite the jarring experience when going over them at even just slightly higher speeds (e.g. 20-25 km/h). But the e-bike helps to mitigate some other issues as well. For instance, to get onto the closest cycleway near my home, I have to initially travel in the opposite direction from my work, and I have to add an additional detour to avoid a particularly dangerous stretch of road. The speedy e-bike means that this is a lot less annoying than it would be on a regular bike.