We have designated areas/constraints for parking cars, and when they don’t park correctly we enforce punishments.
I’d love the rules to be applied as strenuously to hire bikes.
Expect to see this on every future Lime Bike post
I think both can be a problem without the one diminishing the other.
People leave rental cars out all over the road?
Stupid.
If this happens (cars parking where they shouldn’t) car owners get parking fines that can become quite substantial. The same doesn’t happen to hire bike users.
As much as London’s bicycle infrastructure has improved, it’s nowhere near good enough.
Every morning I see dozens of cyclist cycling to work on roads without cycle paths. There’s clearly a demand. Storage/parking is the next thing.
Go to The Netherlands where there are huge underground parking areas for bikes, spaces outside schools and public spaces to keep your bikes. This stuff is essential and London hasn’t even got the basics down, let alone massive cycling infrastructure.
As for limebikes; they’re big, heavy, clunky and there’s no place for people to put them. My answer? Pass legislation that forces these companies to invest in parking infrastructure. That way the taxpayer doesn’t have to pay and the council can work together with the private sector to ensure our city improves.
I’ve never seen a car blocking the entrance to a tube station, or blocking a wheelchair user from using the pavement at a crossing.
I have seen parked lime bikes do both of these things.
If you want a bike, buy a bike, you’ll take care of it and make sure to lock it somewhere safe and out of the way.
Lime bikes can get fucked. People leave them everywhere.
Last week I had to move two lime bikes out of the way of: a) a pavement and b) a bike rack (for people who own bikes, not a rental bike parking area). It’s not that I always have to move a lime bike out of the way, but it’s often enough that it fucks me off.
The tube station entrance person and the pedestrian junction wheelchair blocker are the worst of the bunch, but there are so many shitty parking jobs done by fuckwits that it drives me fucking mad.
Plus, they’re all just making profit for Uber or whoever owns them, without those companies taking any responsibility for the disruption they cause.
Fuck em.
Yes agreed completely. Large areas of London need to be pedestrianised. There’s other great art (I forget the name) that depicts how much space we sacrifice to cars and roads. They are a fantastic tool yes but all too often unnecessary, wasteful and lazy. Tax cars more make trains cheaper too…
Agree. My road has parking bays painted on the pavement the whole way down both sides, and is a busy through route for people walking as well as buses. The parked cars reduce the pavement width by 1/2 so you have to walk single file and wait for people to pass coming the other way.
Nobody seems to care about this sort of arrangement though. Yes, some hire bikes are parked stupidly, but it’s nothing compared to the acres of public space given to cars that we are blind to due to motornormativity.
Let’s not be obtuse though.
Pedestrians don’t walk in the road, so not really an issue there. Cars sticking out of driveways all the way to the road? Not seen that. Cars mounted on pavements. Yeah, to a degree. But still find navigating Lime bikes in certain parts of London more difficult.
And I also feel it’s more likely in London to be taken out by a Lime bike/electric bike, particularly at traffic lights.
I find there’s really not that many cars in much of London. In central the streets are mostly being used by vans and buses. And the delivery mopeds/steroided bikes.
This is a city with good public transport and terrible drivers. I’d be curious what % of Londoners own a car/use it daily broken down by zone.
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We have designated areas/constraints for parking cars, and when they don’t park correctly we enforce punishments.
I’d love the rules to be applied as strenuously to hire bikes.
Expect to see this on every future Lime Bike post
I think both can be a problem without the one diminishing the other.
People leave rental cars out all over the road?
Stupid.
If this happens (cars parking where they shouldn’t) car owners get parking fines that can become quite substantial. The same doesn’t happen to hire bike users.
As much as London’s bicycle infrastructure has improved, it’s nowhere near good enough.
Every morning I see dozens of cyclist cycling to work on roads without cycle paths. There’s clearly a demand. Storage/parking is the next thing.
Go to The Netherlands where there are huge underground parking areas for bikes, spaces outside schools and public spaces to keep your bikes. This stuff is essential and London hasn’t even got the basics down, let alone massive cycling infrastructure.
As for limebikes; they’re big, heavy, clunky and there’s no place for people to put them. My answer? Pass legislation that forces these companies to invest in parking infrastructure. That way the taxpayer doesn’t have to pay and the council can work together with the private sector to ensure our city improves.
Will our local government do this? Probably not…
I draw straw man. Gib upvote.
It’s called the [fallacy of relative privation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#:~:text=Fallacy%20of%20relative%20privation)
I’ve never seen a car blocking the entrance to a tube station, or blocking a wheelchair user from using the pavement at a crossing.
I have seen parked lime bikes do both of these things.
If you want a bike, buy a bike, you’ll take care of it and make sure to lock it somewhere safe and out of the way.
Lime bikes can get fucked. People leave them everywhere.
Last week I had to move two lime bikes out of the way of: a) a pavement and b) a bike rack (for people who own bikes, not a rental bike parking area). It’s not that I always have to move a lime bike out of the way, but it’s often enough that it fucks me off.
The tube station entrance person and the pedestrian junction wheelchair blocker are the worst of the bunch, but there are so many shitty parking jobs done by fuckwits that it drives me fucking mad.
Plus, they’re all just making profit for Uber or whoever owns them, without those companies taking any responsibility for the disruption they cause.
Fuck em.
Yes agreed completely. Large areas of London need to be pedestrianised. There’s other great art (I forget the name) that depicts how much space we sacrifice to cars and roads. They are a fantastic tool yes but all too often unnecessary, wasteful and lazy. Tax cars more make trains cheaper too…
Agree. My road has parking bays painted on the pavement the whole way down both sides, and is a busy through route for people walking as well as buses. The parked cars reduce the pavement width by 1/2 so you have to walk single file and wait for people to pass coming the other way.
Nobody seems to care about this sort of arrangement though. Yes, some hire bikes are parked stupidly, but it’s nothing compared to the acres of public space given to cars that we are blind to due to motornormativity.
Let’s not be obtuse though.
Pedestrians don’t walk in the road, so not really an issue there. Cars sticking out of driveways all the way to the road? Not seen that. Cars mounted on pavements. Yeah, to a degree. But still find navigating Lime bikes in certain parts of London more difficult.
And I also feel it’s more likely in London to be taken out by a Lime bike/electric bike, particularly at traffic lights.
I find there’s really not that many cars in much of London. In central the streets are mostly being used by vans and buses. And the delivery mopeds/steroided bikes.
This is a city with good public transport and terrible drivers. I’d be curious what % of Londoners own a car/use it daily broken down by zone.
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