Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'
The Canal and River Trust says eight or nine are being pulled out a week in one city alone.
Make the company liable and they’ll come up with their own way to prevent or mitigate this. Their business model is causing this, it’s their job to fix it.
Fine them a punitive amount per occurrence. It’s probably not cheap to discover and we probably only find a fraction of them so the cost must consider that. It must also be high enough to either incentivize a fix or fully cover repair.
Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can't be stolen and they'll be kept in better condition because they aren't being pinched constantly.
Bikes like that promote some of the worst aspects of bicycle culture - inexperienced riders doing high speed with zero regard for where they park once the ride is over. Obviously the bikes shouldn't be tossed in the water, the entire business model should be tossed out.
When I was a kid, if I wanted to ride to school, my school required that I pass a cycling proficiency test, which taught me about road laws and where and how I was supposed to position my bike on the road to stay safe.
I'd love to see a cycling and small electric vehicle proficiency course be part of our school curriculum.
There are always going to be people that ignore the rules of the road (I nearly got hit by a car today who didn't give way to the right on a roundabout, I was watching him, he didn't even look!), but I don't see how adding this in schools could cause harm.
Install 360° cameras, film those assholes and make them pay for retrieval.
So constant 360° surveillance?
You only need to save the recording when the bike's accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.
...or have decent security on them that can't be broken by a 12yo.
The problem is it's done by folk that don't pay and probably covering their face. The fact the company thinks it's cheaper to lose bikes than pay rent for land for stations to secure the bikes between customers is the problem. They don't care.
Fuck that. Lime's business model promotes this sort of littering. These things are left in the most random places and it's a hazard. Just pull them off the streets entirely.
Check out how bicing in Barcelona works, no cameras and surveillance, but you literally cannot retrieve a bike without an account and the app because they are physically locked in racks. It's a brilliant system and ours can be easily fixed with a little legislation.
We had same thing in Greece but with scooters. People used to steal them and throw them in the sea. Crazy.
Drago? Drago? Did you get away safely from that Lime Lawyer?
