In my half-baked opinion pehaps Lime could fund construction of docking stations and charge users who do not return their ebike following use.
bobblebob100 on
Dont you have to take a pic of the bike after you have used it, and upload it to the app? Thats how they work in Europe to prove you left it in a reasonable condition
I suspect the wind is blowing them over. They work well in Europe but they have plenty of bike lanes
PoodleBoss on
Problem is find is they are all parked all over the bike bars, so normally cyclist can’t easily lock their bike to it. So infuriating.
Corrie7686 on
We have these in Manchester, yep, they are littered all over the place.
Yep teens / young men ride them on the pavements at 15+ MPH and they are lethal
RealBigSalmon on
As someone in MK, they are just dumped everywhere. Wouldn’t lose any sleep if they are gone.
Ironfields on
This is the sort of thing that could be really quite nice if some of the British public weren’t such monumental cunts. Electric personal transport is fantastic for getting people out of cars for short journeys.
Away-Activity-469 on
“The weight of a budget tumble dryer.”
We have a new benchmark for heaviness.
not_who_you_think_99 on
I think the main problem isn’t legitimate users parking like c****
It’s that sockless bikes are too easy to steal so lots of kids joyride them then dump them everywhere
But docking stations would solve or at least limit this problem
Desperate-Oven-139 on
We need a few more councils to ban them so Lime are put under *some* pressure to be more rigorous with parking enforcement and perhaps even tighter controls on obtaining an account (ID, over 25 only, security deposit etc).
Fenrisulfr212 on
I dunno about lime bikes but my home town is absoluitely infested with shitty little electric blue scooters clogging up pathways and bushes. Not to mention kids riding them like absolute fucking bellends on the road trying to get themselves killed.
Hopefully Satan is developing a new layer of hell for whichever prat thought it would be a good idea.
As if modern architecture wasnt already enough of a psychic assault. Tipped over scooters everywhere. Fantastic.
m_s_m_2 on
Lime bikes are a green, healthy, efficient and cost effective way of quickly getting around the city. They’ve been absolutely transformational, a stocking success that thousands and thousands of young people love – and help people get to work, socialise and so on. Compare them to cars: they’re less dangerous for pedestrians, they take up way less space, they don’t emit pollutants, they’re cheaper to run, and they don’t dominate our public realm (no need for extensive car parks, work better alongside walkable, dense urban areas)
So it should be of absolutely no surprise that boomers and brain-dead NIMBY councils want to ban them.
The reason that Lime bikes have become a scourge in Brent is because the council hasn’t built nearly enough dedicated parking bays for the bikes. They’ve approximately built ten – yes, you read that right, TEN – bays for the entire borough. Lime offer money to fund infrastructural builds like converting car parking to bike parking.
Feral youths also hack the bikes and ride them about for free (as mentioned in the article, only 5% of bikes are hacked but they account for 40% of complaints). So who is to blame here? Is it Lime, who already equip the bikes with a bunch of security features? Or is local and city governance, who have decriminalised low-level crime and petty theft and helped engender a declining, low-trust society.
NIMBY-brained commenters here claiming “privatising benefit and socialising damages” is both factually bollocks (Lime fund public infrastructure changes) and politically stupid. Who gives a fuck if Lime are making money by providing a service that people like and want? That’s not the point. The point is that WE, the ordinary workers want Lime and THAT is why our councils should spend time and money to incorporate them into the public realm.
I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS on
Someone is at risk of tripping over a discarded bike: “I want them all crushed.”
Over 400 pedestrians killed by cars every single year: *crickets*
Lime can *absolutely* do better, and more docking stations are a good place to start. But it’s not fair to blame Lime exclusively for people being scrotes. Threatening to ban them just sounds like pandering to the boomer car lobby.
things_U_choose_2_b on
> “To enforce mandatory parking rules in Brent, we first need the council to build a functional network of parking locations” says Lime
Nah fuck you, stop trying to socialise losses whilst privatising profits. How about you use some of YOUR BUSINESSES profits to fix the problems your business is causing instead of expecting the council (who are already overstretched to breaking point) to fund it?
CurtisInCamden on
Maybe repurpose a few of the countless number of car parking spaces that line most city streets? That’s room for like 10 bikes each.
MyChemicalBarndance on
I often wondered why Lime bike users all seem to be nihilistic psychopaths with a death wish, considering most users seem to be young professionals with decent jobs and generally have their shit together. But they cycle like maniacs through lights and against traffic.
Then I found out that Lime charge you for the time you’re on the bike. So these guys would rather potentially die and take people with them just to save like eighty pence.
smyalygames on
See the problem wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t launch a second trial for the rental bikes for whatever reason and let people use their own private escooters in public…
Away-Activity-469 on
The last time I used a lime bike I was surprised at how expensive and inconvenient it was. It was NYE so obviously a taxi would have been more costly but presumably these bikes are always the same price.
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In my half-baked opinion pehaps Lime could fund construction of docking stations and charge users who do not return their ebike following use.
Dont you have to take a pic of the bike after you have used it, and upload it to the app? Thats how they work in Europe to prove you left it in a reasonable condition
I suspect the wind is blowing them over. They work well in Europe but they have plenty of bike lanes
Problem is find is they are all parked all over the bike bars, so normally cyclist can’t easily lock their bike to it. So infuriating.
We have these in Manchester, yep, they are littered all over the place.
Yep teens / young men ride them on the pavements at 15+ MPH and they are lethal
As someone in MK, they are just dumped everywhere. Wouldn’t lose any sleep if they are gone.
This is the sort of thing that could be really quite nice if some of the British public weren’t such monumental cunts. Electric personal transport is fantastic for getting people out of cars for short journeys.
“The weight of a budget tumble dryer.”
We have a new benchmark for heaviness.
I think the main problem isn’t legitimate users parking like c****
It’s that sockless bikes are too easy to steal so lots of kids joyride them then dump them everywhere
But docking stations would solve or at least limit this problem
We need a few more councils to ban them so Lime are put under *some* pressure to be more rigorous with parking enforcement and perhaps even tighter controls on obtaining an account (ID, over 25 only, security deposit etc).
I dunno about lime bikes but my home town is absoluitely infested with shitty little electric blue scooters clogging up pathways and bushes. Not to mention kids riding them like absolute fucking bellends on the road trying to get themselves killed.
Hopefully Satan is developing a new layer of hell for whichever prat thought it would be a good idea.
As if modern architecture wasnt already enough of a psychic assault. Tipped over scooters everywhere. Fantastic.
Lime bikes are a green, healthy, efficient and cost effective way of quickly getting around the city. They’ve been absolutely transformational, a stocking success that thousands and thousands of young people love – and help people get to work, socialise and so on. Compare them to cars: they’re less dangerous for pedestrians, they take up way less space, they don’t emit pollutants, they’re cheaper to run, and they don’t dominate our public realm (no need for extensive car parks, work better alongside walkable, dense urban areas)
So it should be of absolutely no surprise that boomers and brain-dead NIMBY councils want to ban them.
The reason that Lime bikes have become a scourge in Brent is because the council hasn’t built nearly enough dedicated parking bays for the bikes. They’ve approximately built ten – yes, you read that right, TEN – bays for the entire borough. Lime offer money to fund infrastructural builds like converting car parking to bike parking.
Feral youths also hack the bikes and ride them about for free (as mentioned in the article, only 5% of bikes are hacked but they account for 40% of complaints). So who is to blame here? Is it Lime, who already equip the bikes with a bunch of security features? Or is local and city governance, who have decriminalised low-level crime and petty theft and helped engender a declining, low-trust society.
NIMBY-brained commenters here claiming “privatising benefit and socialising damages” is both factually bollocks (Lime fund public infrastructure changes) and politically stupid. Who gives a fuck if Lime are making money by providing a service that people like and want? That’s not the point. The point is that WE, the ordinary workers want Lime and THAT is why our councils should spend time and money to incorporate them into the public realm.
Someone is at risk of tripping over a discarded bike: “I want them all crushed.”
Over 400 pedestrians killed by cars every single year: *crickets*
Lime can *absolutely* do better, and more docking stations are a good place to start. But it’s not fair to blame Lime exclusively for people being scrotes. Threatening to ban them just sounds like pandering to the boomer car lobby.
> “To enforce mandatory parking rules in Brent, we first need the council to build a functional network of parking locations” says Lime
Nah fuck you, stop trying to socialise losses whilst privatising profits. How about you use some of YOUR BUSINESSES profits to fix the problems your business is causing instead of expecting the council (who are already overstretched to breaking point) to fund it?
Maybe repurpose a few of the countless number of car parking spaces that line most city streets? That’s room for like 10 bikes each.
I often wondered why Lime bike users all seem to be nihilistic psychopaths with a death wish, considering most users seem to be young professionals with decent jobs and generally have their shit together. But they cycle like maniacs through lights and against traffic.
Then I found out that Lime charge you for the time you’re on the bike. So these guys would rather potentially die and take people with them just to save like eighty pence.
See the problem wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t launch a second trial for the rental bikes for whatever reason and let people use their own private escooters in public…
The last time I used a lime bike I was surprised at how expensive and inconvenient it was. It was NYE so obviously a taxi would have been more costly but presumably these bikes are always the same price.
Do regular users get some sort of discount?