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clausy


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11-09-2022 09:40 AM

I spotted hundreds of abandoned cars in the area, some of them parking on zig zags, others on pavements, some don't have VED or MOTs. The council enforcement team hasn't given anyone a parking ticket on my street since before Covid.

They're abandoned on both sides of the street which makes them too narrow for two way traffic, sometimes I even get stuck behind a bin lorry and can't get past. Loads of deserted private property, not even shareable, just littering the streets. It's so normalised it seems odd to even challenge it. I don't set up my shed outside my front door.

But seriously if you're going to use the 'abandoned' argument perhaps first think about how we bias our public space towards cars, how much land they take up in proportion to bicycles - ride sharing is literally pick up drop off anywhere, they're not abandoned, simply parked. Why not get Lime to instruct riders to park their bikes on the street like other vehicles so they don't block the pavement for pedestrians? No reason at all these bikes should be on the pavement either. Why shouldn't a ride share bike use the same parking spots as cars? What's better - pavement or road space?

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Lime bikes - samuelsen - 04-09-2022, 10:04 PM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 05-09-2022, 10:22 AM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 05-09-2022, 02:57 PM
RE: Lime bikes - nottinghillbilly - 05-09-2022, 03:45 PM
RE: Lime bikes - BackOnceAgain - 05-09-2022, 03:46 PM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 05-09-2022, 04:26 PM
RE: Lime bikes - Sherwood - 06-09-2022, 08:40 AM
RE: Lime bikes - rbmartin - 06-09-2022, 12:02 PM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 06-09-2022, 01:34 PM
RE: Lime bikes - rbmartin - 06-09-2022, 05:35 PM
RE: Lime bikes - Snazy - 07-09-2022, 09:22 AM
RE: Lime bikes - clausy - 09-09-2022, 01:45 PM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 09-09-2022, 01:51 PM
RE: Lime bikes - Snazy - 10-09-2022, 09:36 PM
RE: Lime bikes - Herbparis - 11-09-2022, 12:29 AM
RE: Lime bikes - clausy - 11-09-2022 09:40 AM
RE: Lime bikes - samuelsen - 11-09-2022, 10:35 AM
RE: Lime bikes - rbmartin - 11-09-2022, 09:02 PM
RE: Lime bikes - Snazy - 13-09-2022, 11:34 AM
RE: Lime bikes - rbmartin - 23-11-2022, 05:36 PM

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