Scrotes leaving e-bikes across the pavements to be the first to completely disregard Wandsworth Council’s ban.
It’s literally a motor vehicle, it should be parked in a road bay.
Then again people that ride these are very lazy or stupid, there’s a little alcove nobody uses opposite our street which is perfect for these bikes but no they get left in the middle of the tiny footpath.
They’re only banning the pavement parking in town centres, it’s not borough-wide.
The part where it won’t come in until they’ve finished setting up parking bays also goes some way to show it wasn’t just on users that there were parking problems. At least this might also help with the problem of the very limited cycle parking in Wandsworth being used by these e-bikes so people with their own push bikes can’t lock them to the stands.
Banning litter too? Wow!
The implementation of this has been fucking idiotic.
Why can’t london look at how other cities have done it well and copied it over?
‘Banning’ things is pointless without proper enforcement.
A lot of the antisocial behaviours e.g. litter, noise, discarded bikes etc. can be stopped if the police was funded properly to enforce rules and to detain or arrest people if needed.
Council enforcement officers can’t really do much if people just walked off when fines are issued – and the antisocial shitheads know it.
Comments seem to be hyperbolic. There are already many parts of London with the same restrictions, and in those areas the app does not allow you to end your journey until you are in a designated parking spot.
The people riding the bikes are not “scrotes” as one commenter has said, they follow the app’s instructions about where they should park. I use Citymapper+Forest and get told exactly where to park, which in boroughs without designated parking will be pavement parking. I am explicitly told not to park in the road unless there’s a designated space.
It also seems very obvious that the photos were taken after windy weather knocked over bikes that had been neatly parked next to each other.
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Scrotes leaving e-bikes across the pavements to be the first to completely disregard Wandsworth Council’s ban.
It’s literally a motor vehicle, it should be parked in a road bay.
Then again people that ride these are very lazy or stupid, there’s a little alcove nobody uses opposite our street which is perfect for these bikes but no they get left in the middle of the tiny footpath.
They’re only banning the pavement parking in town centres, it’s not borough-wide.
The part where it won’t come in until they’ve finished setting up parking bays also goes some way to show it wasn’t just on users that there were parking problems. At least this might also help with the problem of the very limited cycle parking in Wandsworth being used by these e-bikes so people with their own push bikes can’t lock them to the stands.
Banning litter too? Wow!
The implementation of this has been fucking idiotic.
Why can’t london look at how other cities have done it well and copied it over?
‘Banning’ things is pointless without proper enforcement.
A lot of the antisocial behaviours e.g. litter, noise, discarded bikes etc. can be stopped if the police was funded properly to enforce rules and to detain or arrest people if needed.
Council enforcement officers can’t really do much if people just walked off when fines are issued – and the antisocial shitheads know it.
Comments seem to be hyperbolic. There are already many parts of London with the same restrictions, and in those areas the app does not allow you to end your journey until you are in a designated parking spot.
The people riding the bikes are not “scrotes” as one commenter has said, they follow the app’s instructions about where they should park. I use Citymapper+Forest and get told exactly where to park, which in boroughs without designated parking will be pavement parking. I am explicitly told not to park in the road unless there’s a designated space.
It also seems very obvious that the photos were taken after windy weather knocked over bikes that had been neatly parked next to each other.