TL;DR: Docks for dockless bikes from *maybe* 2026.
> Forest and Lime say “problem parking” now occurs in only about five per cent of hires – about a quarter of the scale of the problem previously.
Lime has also been able to reduce anti-social parking by making it harder for its bikes to be “hacked” and ridden without consent.
That sounds quite good. Though 5% of 44,000+ e-bikes being parked antisocially is still way too many.
In London there are at least*
* 3 million cars
* of which 43% are parked on the street (higher than the national average of around 18-20%)
* taking up 14 square km (or 10 Hyde Parks)
but we can’t find enough spaces for dockless bikes?
I ride these all the time and would welcome it. I do think Lime (for example) could be doing a hell of a lot more to direct you to the nearest qualified parking space – once you have an active ride you can’t see where they are. They should introduce a journey planner from A parking space to B parking space, which are all in car parking spaces, not on the pavement.
Can’t stand these hideous bikes and the behaviour of their users.
I know Lime has a way to report poorly parked bikes which can get people a £60 fine. If it was clear that this was being followed through with if you report then I think it’d quite quickly police itself?
I can just imagine old folk walking about reporting all the bikes with glee. But hey, they’d be in their right to if the bikes were parked in the middle of the pavement or road
Finally some good news! They’re a disaster for disabled people.
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TL;DR: Docks for dockless bikes from *maybe* 2026.
> Forest and Lime say “problem parking” now occurs in only about five per cent of hires – about a quarter of the scale of the problem previously.
Lime has also been able to reduce anti-social parking by making it harder for its bikes to be “hacked” and ridden without consent.
That sounds quite good. Though 5% of 44,000+ e-bikes being parked antisocially is still way too many.
In London there are at least*
* 3 million cars
* of which 43% are parked on the street (higher than the national average of around 18-20%)
* taking up 14 square km (or 10 Hyde Parks)
but we can’t find enough spaces for dockless bikes?
*(2020 numbers: https://centreforlondon.org/blog/parking-policy/)
I ride these all the time and would welcome it. I do think Lime (for example) could be doing a hell of a lot more to direct you to the nearest qualified parking space – once you have an active ride you can’t see where they are. They should introduce a journey planner from A parking space to B parking space, which are all in car parking spaces, not on the pavement.
Can’t stand these hideous bikes and the behaviour of their users.
I know Lime has a way to report poorly parked bikes which can get people a £60 fine. If it was clear that this was being followed through with if you report then I think it’d quite quickly police itself?
I can just imagine old folk walking about reporting all the bikes with glee. But hey, they’d be in their right to if the bikes were parked in the middle of the pavement or road
Finally some good news! They’re a disaster for disabled people.