Lime cyclists will no longer get away with dumping bikes as company announces £20m ‘Action Plan’ – full list of rule changes
by rarely-redditing
Lime cyclists will no longer get away with dumping bikes as company announces £20m ‘Action Plan’ – full list of rule changes
by rarely-redditing
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Main issue is that they are more mopeds than bikes. If they were just pedal bikes they’d be less of an issue.
yes they will get away with it. Lime bikes were banned from our estate by the estate management. Lime agreed to charge a fee to the last user for dumping the bikes. Then someone complained and Lime (without telling the management) just removed the block. Then reinstated it, then removed it, then reinstated it and it is now currently removed. Estate Management advised that Lime just rolled over everytime someone complained about the additional fee.
The explosion of e-bikes definitely has problems but I’m hoping it will lead to better cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. For example there are many routes that are now far quicker by bike than bus or taxi
nobody enforces it and Lime relies on Londoners contacting them to complain (a full time job in itself, one day I decided to email Lime every time I encountered a badly parked bike – i emailed them 9 times in under an hour.
Finally! No more playing ‘spot the Lime bike’ in the most ridiculous places—trees, canals, the middle of crosswalks. Maybe now we can walk down the pavement without dodging an abandoned e-bike, hopefully, this £20m plan actually leads to better enforcement and not just more PR fluff
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I understand the need for ensuring that bikes don’t litter pavements, having said that it seems like Lime/local authorities/NIMBYs don’t quite understand that for rental bikes to work long-term they need to actually be convenient.
If my choice is getting a tube and having to walk 10 minutes the other end but I can cycle directly in roughly the same time, I’m going to take a bike. If I now have to cycle to a completely different place, park and walk 10 minutes back to wherever I’m going it’s no longer convenient for me and I’m almost certainly going to take the tube.
There are enough roadblocks for cycling in London as is. Safety concerns, attitude towards cyclists from drivers, the weather, increasing costs….if they’re going to push ahead with this they need to be very careful that they don’t gut their own product.
I don’t really get this, though, because when I see a hundred bikes blocking a pavement, that’s because riders have dropped off in a designated zone, as is apparently the solution to the problem of dumped bikes thrown across a pavement or road, but seems that this is a different problem where the legitimate parking spaces are overcrowded. Unless, of course, this will be considered a non compliant end to the ride, but there’s no way the app will accurately determine that a bike is over the edge of the drop-off zone where there’s not enough room.
Also, nothing has been done about the ease of theft/ hacking except to add a beep that simply makes them more annoying with a click *and* a beep!
If this is done properly (huge if) it’s great news.
Lime bikes are a fantastic addition to our transport network shifting unnecessary journeys off four wheels.
Lime has always had the technology to manage persistent offenders of bad dumping of bikes – they know who’s renting and they ask for a photo when parking.
They just need to be willing to take responsibility for policing it a bit better.
It won’t get rid of all the side effects but it will tilt the balance towards this being a huge net benefit to London.
JUST ALLOCATE MORE ROAD SPACE FOR PARKING THEM.
We’re fine with “dockless” cars taking up road space, why not bikes?
I feel like a sensible and not massively difficult solution would be a density check, whereby if there are too many bikes within a defined area you need go park somewhere else.
I personally don’t have an issue with open street parking for them, so long as they are in defined parking zones or reasonably spaced out on the pavement. There’s a reason that more expensive lime bikes are way more popular than Santander bikes, and it’s because being able to go door to door on a rented bike is way way more convenient than walking to a dock, getting a bike, cycling to a dock, and walking to your destination
So is the company itself going to stop dumping them en masse on certain streets?
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