London's streets are being overrun by badly parked cycles, with Lime bikes identified as a particular scourge. These dockless bikes have transformed urban mobility but have now become an increasing menace due to the volume of discarded cycles cluttering pavements. Campaigners are urging for councils to be granted legal powers to tackle the issue of abandoned e-bikes and to consider capping their numbers in London. A council chief in the West End has echoed this sentiment, calling on the government for enforcement authority. The City of London police are taking action by seizing an average of five illegal 'souped-up' e-bikes and scooters weekly.
City of London police seize five illegal 'souped-up' e-bikes and scooters every week https://t.co/wVyJFCVIM1
🌟WE NEED ACTION ON FLYTIPPING🌟 It is not just City neighbourhoods that have to put up with the mindless idiots who dump their rubbish. 😡 There are people who travel down the fen roads surrounding our City and dump rubbish. Check out this outrage on Willow Hall Lane 😢 https://t.co/V75avxuyv4
LONDON is NOT SAFE! Someone literally got their phone stolen in front of me around liverpool street! MIND YOU….the people that stole it were on bikes in DELIVEROO UNIFORM!!
Give us legal powers to crack down on dockless bikes in the West End, council chief tells Government https://t.co/b2exLpBHNS
An epidemic of badly parked cycles are a bane on London's streets #frontpage They have transformed the way we get about - but the sheer amount of discarded cycles strewn on our pavements has become an increasing menace. Read the full report: https://t.co/Wh5KvRw3a0 https://t.co/WWnEdqmvLd
Councils should be given legal powers to crack down on e-bikes abandoned on pavements and potentially cap the number available in London, campaigners have demanded https://t.co/IPCeRzcKmL
London's Lime bike epidemic: badly parked cycles are a scourge on our streets ✍️ @robbieegrif https://t.co/rc2fbuA8oI