LIME E-bikes being dumped in canal & rivers

[Dogtrousers]

Fanciful because you believe minicab firms are saints who never do anything unethical to get rid of competitors, or what?

I remember Cambridge Green Bikes. Nicked and dumped very quickly, then as soon as the service ended, the dumping stopped too and people started seeing the bikes, as in http://iankitching.me.uk/history/cam/old/green-bike.html

Random vandals wouldn't have stopped. It was political. The same is probably true now, but Lime and similar have deeper pockets.

Minicab firms? There aren't many of those left. Get with it man, it's all uber now.

I'm extremely sceptical of the idea that people are going to the trouble of moving nicely parked lime bikes in order to make a point. But as I say, not impossible.

 

[mjr]

Minicab firms? There aren't many of those left. Get with it man, it's all uber now.

uber and its ilk are basically a worse minicab business. Those firms flirt with the edges of employment law, so why wouldn't they take a similarly relaxed attitude to property and highways law?

 

[mjr]

Minicab firms? There aren't many of those left. Get with it man, it's all uber now.

uber and its ilk are basically a worse minicab business. Those firms flirt with the edges of employment law, so why wouldn't they take a similarly relaxed attitude to property and highways law?

 

[mustang1]

With docked bikes you have to return the bike to a dock or you incur a financial penalty.

With dockless bikes/scooters the public are trusted to park them sensibly in appropriate places.

Note those two words "public" and "trusted". That's why they are always dumped any old where - generally strewn all over the place, blocking footways or indeed in rivers or canals. All in all they are a blight on the urban environment.

Well, since temporary road signs (eg roadworks ahead) are dumped on the footpath, maybe the like bikes should be parked in the road.

Why should pedestrians always have the sidewalks blocked.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well, since temporary road signs (eg roadworks ahead) are dumped on the footpath, maybe the like bikes should be parked in the road.

Why should pedestrians always have the sidewalks blocked.

It happens.

I saw one yoof dismount from a Lime bike (almost certainly "hacked" and not paid for) outside my local station and just drop it in the middle of the road.

It's not a through road, so very little traffic but all the same. I would have shifted it but my train was arriving.