JACKSON — Before and after school in Jackson, traffic on the pathways around town can play out like a scene from the apocalyptic road rage film “Mad Max” — if all the characters rode e-bikes.

“It can be quite intimidating when you're going contraflow to the school commute, and there's 50 middle school kids coming at you,” Brian Schilling, pathways coordinator for the town of Jackson, told town council members and Teton County Commissioners during a joint meeting Monday. “Even when they're going 12-15 mph, it feels like they're coming at you a lot faster than that."

This scene and others were shared during a presentation from Schilling and the advocacy group Friends of Pathways, which are working with local schools and law enforcement to bring order and safety to Jackson’s extensive netwo

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