Tube union threatens strike unless e-bikes are banned from London Underground after platform blaze – The Standard

by jaredce

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  2. Please ban laptops for their batteries as well so that I can more easily request WFH 🙈 in all seriousness, the risk is usually modded (illegal) ones. We’d just need the police to take more action on taking these out – not all e-bikes are the same

  4. Imagine how well the tube would run if we just banned passengers.

  5. The anti bike agenda in here is absolutely wild

    I can understand not wanting them on the tube, but ban them all?? Wild

  6. They can ‘ban’ it but nothing will change. Station staff will go ‘not my job’ and just wave people through anyway, and BTP will think it’s beneath them to enforce this.

  8. Batteries from reputable brands like Bosch Shimnao etc have never, to my knowledge, been involved in these incidents.
    However, I get it that it is not feasible to allow reputable brands and ban crappy no-name imports, so I get it that banning all ebikes is the most sensible course of action at this stage

  9. I think a rule of “your battery cannot be attached to your bike while on the train” is workable.

    To my understanding batteries explode while energy is flowing, right? So removing them from a bike would prevent explosion?

  10. These will cause a death. If every tube user new the intensity and quickness that batteries burned at and the crucial facts that most of these ebikes are very poorly made they push for the ban.

    Their needs to be system and plan put in place for when they do chance in fire.

    Most people have never experienced the type of fire these cause it’s not like anything else with fuel of the combustion being so dense

  11. Is it unreasonable to ban any kind of bike on the tube? I can sympathise with the fold up ones but any full sized bike is an inconvenience to other passengers.

  12. Ebikes are a green mobility revolution. I use mine go commute everyday and charge it out of Solar Directly. They have supposed also an increase in living standards for many people that needed to walk or pedal their way to places, now regardless of wind, they can take even kids on them, some car users and motorcycle users are substituting them for ebikes , unclogging the already busy roads.
    Banning them is just a favour to the Car industry, which lobbies for the Statu Quo

  16. What could possibly go wrong with people bringing IEDs onto packed trains?

  17. Will tube staff actually stop anyone though? Currently they’ve given up enforcing ticketing so…

  18. I wonder if there are any groups with a vested interest in limiting the adoption of e-bikes?

  19. Check the visa status of most people with e-bikes on the tube, bet you will find a few irregularities.

  20. Was on the met line last week right at the end, guy got on with his e-bike and padlocked it onto the middle pole in the standing area of the doorway. Wouldnt have even been able to throw it off had this happened

  21. Why not setup a paid schema which certifies your EV? Maybe 50 quid a year?

  22. Yeah they shouldn’t be anywhere near the underground

  23. It’s possible Ima compkwte moron, but the point of a bike is to get from A to B, none of which is via public bloody transport

  25. I never realised that electric bikes aren’t covered ban the existing TfL ban on electric scooters and unicycles. How bizarre.

    My office bans all electric bikes/scooters/etc from the bike store cos insurance won’t cover them for fires.
    Caused much consternation amongst people who’d just bought e-bikes on the cycle to work loan. But I do see how it wouldn’t be practical to separately ban home made ones with dodgy conversion kits but not ban proper ones from reputable manufacturers that have the CE mark

    Until the state ever gets a handle on these dodgy imports with no safety standards, I expect we’ll see more and more bans. e-bkes should be a strictly outdoors only thing.

  26. This is a TFL grenfell waiting to happen. All it takes is for one tube delayed in the tunnels, a battery to go off fire catches on the seats, everyone stuck and it’s a disaster.

    All the relevant authorities will point fingers at each other, it’s not my job, it’s not their job, it should have been their responsibly etc etc lessons will be learnt.

  27. Gig economy is destroying society, all in the name of employing asylum seekers.

    Totally unsustainable.

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