I know there’s endless complaints about dickheads leaving their lime bikes in the middle of the pavement, or the clicking when the don’t pay for them, but this takes the piss from Lime as a company – easily 50-70 bikes, fully blocking the pedestrian crossing, 5m deep and 30m along.
We don’t accept it if a restaurant decides they own the entire pavement for outdoor seating, if someone set up a food stall without licensing or if someone parked their SUV on the pavement, why can Lime take up so much public space?
by purpleaardvark1
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Paris has banned the electric scooters because a small percentage of people voted and those actual users didn’t bother to vote.
I know if there was a London referendum these e-bikes could easily get banned.
I do value the service these bikes provide . Sadly nobody is taking responsibility in how they are becoming a pedestrian issue.
Personally I’m glad to see such huge demand from KCL students to travel by bike.
The issue though is a lack of decent parking spaces – would agree it makes a lot of sense to reallocate road space in order to create a decent spot for those bikes to be parked out of the way of pedestrians.
Those bloody leaves will cause a railway disruption!
Someone should rake them! I say!
They need to be banned and the cycle hire scheme extended to all parts of London as a replacement.
I don’t actually know anyone who thinks the status quo is acceptable. Hire bikes in general, yes. But situations like OP posted, no. So I’m confused why there is seemingly no conversation among local governments about what to do about it. Especially seeing as a cross-borough approach is needed to simultaneously encourage cycling whilst discouraging irresponsible users/corporate practices.
How is it acceptable? Money.
They pay the local council big money to be there and the council simply turn a blind eye.
This is an excellent example of privatisation of the profits and socialisation of the extrernalities. Their whole business model is based on using/leeching public spaces for free.
Every bike uses GPS so they should be geo-fence areas where it is not acceptable to park.
This is similar to UBER and others who like to park on short-term parking bays blocking them for occasional users who needs to stop for drop-off
LIME BIKE BAD!
UPVOTES TO THE LEFT!
I’d rather it was here blocking things than not at all.i would ban cars before I’d ban lime cycles. They should just make it illegal to block crosswalks and impound bikes where it blocks them and use the fines to cover the cost. Easy.
Sucks even if you’re not using a wheelchair, but how are people with Disabilities supposed to travel saftey if pavements keep getting taken up by bikes?
You’re not going to like the Netherlands then.
Lime: “Magnificent, aren’t they?”
You’re right, the road should be taking up way less space!
Better than cars.
Calm ya tits people , this probably due the hectic weekend we just had ….
Now lime and others are forced to use designated parking in some boroughs so things should improve … this is progress for all of us
I use these e-bikes a lot because owning one is headache with so much theft …
And Boris bikes our slow , so it’s Forrest and lime for me
Are the bikes protesting or something?
The youngens are training before becoming sadlers on Diablo
On my way to work today I pushed one over for the first time.
A sharp turn in a cycle lane and there was one blocking it, I pushed it over so it won’t cause a crash later on.
Not sure how Lime isn’t fined for this, their products are scattered all over the city without any regards. They should banned until they can provide a better solution to avoid this type of mess
It’s part of a hare brained zero carbon plan by the government and local councils called ‘active transport’.
The government naively commited to zero carbon by 2050, by the simple minded idea that the plebs will be ‘nudged’ out of their cars and cycle everywhere if they simply charge us to use our own cars, fine us for emissions, charge us for parking, allow road blocks and create 15 minute town ghettos.
We will all use buses, work from home or get soaked using £3 BILLION cycle motorways.
How’s that working out?
Now you know.
The politicians will, of course, continue to use their ministerial cars.
I think hotspots where they get dumped en masse like this should have a very visible Lime/Uber docks but having them generally is a bad idea IMO.
When you think about how and when these are used, you’ll find hurried, cycling-inexperienced sometimes pissed people flapping around on their phone and try to navigate to find where they can park. Feels dangerous. It also eliminates the freedom that comes with using them.
Like plastic and diesel, they sell the idea to the government agencies of the day, we pay for their decisions later.
I think Lime should have docked bikes.
Prevents theft and will also prevent this stuff
If the end-game is to ban all petrol-based vehicles then park the Lime bikes in the street.
Sidewalks are supposed to be for bipeds and their four-legged furry companions.
These bikes remind of London pigeon gatherings (like as if they saw food on the floor).
Anyway why do people park these parks in weird ways in London so often and still the company and local London councils haven’t done anything meaningful to resolve the issue or issues.
I literally live there oml. I’ve never seen it like that. I wonder why they stopped
Because they pay … Damned if the government wants to kill that golden goose.
Intrusive thoughts relating to dominoes
Still more acceptable that the sheer number of cars lined up in every available spot, everywhere else outside of zone 1
Look around you, cars are causing far more clutter.
we are just SO used to cars being parked everywhere, that we dont see them anymore. but bikes or anything else like scooters seems to take all the space. this is just from perspective. let’s just compare how much space one car takes, probably the equivalent of 10 bikes? and most of the time only one person use the car ? we are so used to see cars everywhere around cities and places and public spaces, that they disappear
Am I the only one that read the title, looked at the photo, and assumed it concerned the lack of street sweepers?