Those transport chiefs should visit Shanghai or Seoul if they think this is too many.
Nothing wrong with the number, whatever happened to providing an eco friendly, traffic reducing and healthy transport option?
From the article the issue seems to lie more with the ways in which they are abandoned in the road or pavements which is inconvenient for others. This, I completely understand and measures need to be made to tackle it.
What about the ‘unacceptable’ number of cars?
Bikes take up way less space and fo not cause pollution.
Nor kill as many people.
I would be very very supportive of more, cheaper lime bikes and less cars
What’s unacceptable is how Forest bikes only show you the places you can’t park or cycle in until after you’ve paid.
I used to be a hypocrite but I Lime whenever I can as I can’t stand how grim some people are on buses. Especially in the winter folks don’t give a fuck how ill they are and happily cough and spew their guts up without covering their mouths. Windows are never open and it becomes a horrible hotbox of sweat and stale breath.
I do agree that there are lots of lime riders that dump bikes in an inconsiderate way and more definitely needs to be done to tackle it.
Really fed up of the parking in and around City of London. No enforcement. Blocked pavements, people parking in disabled bays.
Costs totally socialised.
tfl need to stfu until the refund all of the overcharging they’ve done since the hack
Cars are more numerous, more dangerous, and take several times more space than bikes
They’re gonna shit themselves when they discover cars
Not particularly related to this post, but has anyone else fell victim to Forest changing their 10 minutes free daily policy in back to back months?
First they (silently) changed the 10 free minutes from being applied at the start of the day, to only being applied once all of your minutes have been used, meaning if you bought the 400 minutes for 30 days package, your ‘daily’ free minutes only get used after all of the 400 are done.
And now they’ve removed the 10 free minutes to being used in conjunction with any minute bundle at all…again without actually informing the user until you query the unexpected charges.
I don’t begrudge them changing their terms, but doing it without any clear indication before buying the minutes is scummy
ITT: car obsessed brainrot.
Almost like this is something that should be centrally organised and not left to 4 or 5 private companies with varying degrees of business ethics
The technology is good and should be encouraged but it’s not being managed properly at all
Ha, if you think Limes are bad, take a look at how many fucking cars there are littering the streets.
As many have said a handful of car parking spaces on most streets and slightly stiffer regulation and there wouldn’t be a problem
The barriers are local authorities. Any such initiative and local residents will complain to councillors and councillors will kiabosh it completely. The structure of local government kills progress like this, particularly where services are used more by the young than the old
I live in east london and work in the city and legit every time I leave my house I have to do at least one manoeuvre around a lime bike… the other day around liv st I was forced to walk on the road around because the pavement was totally blocked off with bikes. it’s bad for pedestrians and awful for blind people and disabled people using mobility devices.
I’d love for Santander bikes to expand to places further from Central and to add even more e-bikes. In exchange, get rid of Lime etc. Problem solved. Or make the other companies adopt docking stations. I’m so tired of having to climb over bikes dropped at the bottom of my stairs or navigating around them on narrow pavements
Amazing how everyone is complaining about how unacceptable the bikes are when lying over the place. Sure. Just shows how numb we’ve become to the scourge of the car and the internal combustion engine. People would rather have the place “look nice” and breathe in PM2.5s etc, rather than live in a clean city. Crazy world.
I do use Lime but i gotta say that there is an extremely high number of bikes everywhere and most of them are thrown away on pavements and streets, while some of them are used as trash bins. Don’t get me started with how some thugs are breaking them so that they can cycle with them for free.
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God forbid people have easy bike access.
Those transport chiefs should visit Shanghai or Seoul if they think this is too many.
Nothing wrong with the number, whatever happened to providing an eco friendly, traffic reducing and healthy transport option?
From the article the issue seems to lie more with the ways in which they are abandoned in the road or pavements which is inconvenient for others. This, I completely understand and measures need to be made to tackle it.
What about the ‘unacceptable’ number of cars?
Bikes take up way less space and fo not cause pollution.
Nor kill as many people.
I would be very very supportive of more, cheaper lime bikes and less cars
What’s unacceptable is how Forest bikes only show you the places you can’t park or cycle in until after you’ve paid.
I used to be a hypocrite but I Lime whenever I can as I can’t stand how grim some people are on buses. Especially in the winter folks don’t give a fuck how ill they are and happily cough and spew their guts up without covering their mouths. Windows are never open and it becomes a horrible hotbox of sweat and stale breath.
I do agree that there are lots of lime riders that dump bikes in an inconsiderate way and more definitely needs to be done to tackle it.
Really fed up of the parking in and around City of London. No enforcement. Blocked pavements, people parking in disabled bays.
Costs totally socialised.
tfl need to stfu until the refund all of the overcharging they’ve done since the hack
Cars are more numerous, more dangerous, and take several times more space than bikes
They’re gonna shit themselves when they discover cars
Not particularly related to this post, but has anyone else fell victim to Forest changing their 10 minutes free daily policy in back to back months?
First they (silently) changed the 10 free minutes from being applied at the start of the day, to only being applied once all of your minutes have been used, meaning if you bought the 400 minutes for 30 days package, your ‘daily’ free minutes only get used after all of the 400 are done.
And now they’ve removed the 10 free minutes to being used in conjunction with any minute bundle at all…again without actually informing the user until you query the unexpected charges.
I don’t begrudge them changing their terms, but doing it without any clear indication before buying the minutes is scummy
ITT: car obsessed brainrot.
Almost like this is something that should be centrally organised and not left to 4 or 5 private companies with varying degrees of business ethics
The technology is good and should be encouraged but it’s not being managed properly at all
Ha, if you think Limes are bad, take a look at how many fucking cars there are littering the streets.
As many have said a handful of car parking spaces on most streets and slightly stiffer regulation and there wouldn’t be a problem
The barriers are local authorities. Any such initiative and local residents will complain to councillors and councillors will kiabosh it completely. The structure of local government kills progress like this, particularly where services are used more by the young than the old
I live in east london and work in the city and legit every time I leave my house I have to do at least one manoeuvre around a lime bike… the other day around liv st I was forced to walk on the road around because the pavement was totally blocked off with bikes. it’s bad for pedestrians and awful for blind people and disabled people using mobility devices.
I’d love for Santander bikes to expand to places further from Central and to add even more e-bikes. In exchange, get rid of Lime etc. Problem solved. Or make the other companies adopt docking stations. I’m so tired of having to climb over bikes dropped at the bottom of my stairs or navigating around them on narrow pavements
Amazing how everyone is complaining about how unacceptable the bikes are when lying over the place. Sure. Just shows how numb we’ve become to the scourge of the car and the internal combustion engine. People would rather have the place “look nice” and breathe in PM2.5s etc, rather than live in a clean city. Crazy world.
I do use Lime but i gotta say that there is an extremely high number of bikes everywhere and most of them are thrown away on pavements and streets, while some of them are used as trash bins. Don’t get me started with how some thugs are breaking them so that they can cycle with them for free.
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