This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these.
I moved them both but the mum behind me was going to go in the road.
This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these.
This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these.
I moved them both but the mum behind me was going to go in the road.
I trust you put the mother with child straight and pointed out that she should bloody well walk in the main road or move the bikes herself, as there will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past?
Good of you @Baldybonce. They do have a stand that flips down from behind the pedal shaft which you could have used (as could the people that dumped them).
This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these.
I moved them both but the mum behind me was going to go in the road.
You’d best hope they don’t fall on someone. Got you bang to rights.
This is right now in Charlton. No one can get past with a buggy
There will be dozens of roads in the same area where people park their cars on the pavement and buggies can't get past. Difference is, you can move one of these.
I moved them both but the mum behind me was going to go in the road.
You’d best hope they don’t fall on someone. Got you bang to rights.
If they're still there tomorrow I'll wheel them down Anchor and hope lane and chuck them in the river.
A second dockless hire bike operator has moved into Greenwich borough to compete with Lime – but with no agreement on creating bays where users can park their cycles.
Forest bikes started to appear across the borough of Lewisham and parts of Greenwich last month. Its bikes can be cheaper than Lime for shorter trips – offering a free ten-minute ride each day before charging 29p per mile – but there are fewer of them.
A second dockless hire bike operator has moved into Greenwich borough to compete with Lime – but with no agreement on creating bays where users can park their cycles.
Forest bikes started to appear across the borough of Lewisham and parts of Greenwich last month. Its bikes can be cheaper than Lime for shorter trips – offering a free ten-minute ride each day before charging 29p per mile – but there are fewer of them.
Greenwich Council is poised to sign a deal to create parking bays for Lime bikes in part of the borough – two years after plans to try to regulate the dockless cycles were first announced.
Lime will pay the council £30,000 plus £170 per parking bay created as part of a one-year trial. However, only an area around Greenwich town centre will be covered at first.
Had two dumped randomly by us all the way out in Greenhithe, I think Londoners working at Amazon were leaving them there to get from the station to work each day as they kept moving slightly each day.
Took over a week and many emails for Lime to collect them.
The fact that they can just be left randomly anywhere is a disgrace.
Had two dumped randomly by us all the way out in Greenhithe, I think Londoners working at Amazon were leaving them there to get from the station to work each day as they kept moving slightly each day.
Took over a week and many emails for Lime to collect them.
The fact that they can just be left randomly anywhere is a disgrace.
What's the difference between just dumping and leaving a bike in the street and dumping anything else - like a washing machine, or a mattress?
Had two dumped randomly by us all the way out in Greenhithe, I think Londoners working at Amazon were leaving them there to get from the station to work each day as they kept moving slightly each day.
Took over a week and many emails for Lime to collect them.
The fact that they can just be left randomly anywhere is a disgrace.
What's the difference between just dumping and leaving a bike in the street and dumping anything else - like a washing machine, or a mattress?
Had two dumped randomly by us all the way out in Greenhithe, I think Londoners working at Amazon were leaving them there to get from the station to work each day as they kept moving slightly each day.
Took over a week and many emails for Lime to collect them.
The fact that they can just be left randomly anywhere is a disgrace.
What's the difference between just dumping and leaving a bike in the street and dumping anything else - like a washing machine, or a mattress?
Had two dumped randomly by us all the way out in Greenhithe, I think Londoners working at Amazon were leaving them there to get from the station to work each day as they kept moving slightly each day.
Took over a week and many emails for Lime to collect them.
The fact that they can just be left randomly anywhere is a disgrace.
What's the difference between just dumping and leaving a bike in the street and dumping anything else - like a washing machine, or a mattress?
My work means I speak to paramedics and emergency department medical staff fairly regularly. "Lime bike leg" is a term they now use regularly in London.
In fact a friend of mine did her ACL falling off a lime bike drunk. Worst thing is she had just come back from 2 years recovery and 2 surgeries on her other ACL.
My work means I speak to paramedics and emergency department medical staff fairly regularly. "Lime bike leg" is a term they now use regularly in London.
In fact a friend of mine did her ACL falling off a lime bike drunk. Worst thing is she had just come back from 2 years recovery and 2 surgeries on her other ACL.
What is the real financial cost for individuals using lime bikes and would getting a bus (plus a short walk from the bus stop presumably) be cheaper?
I think you can get the first 10mins of the ride free of charge, so maybe a bus not cheaper. Around here in Peckham it seems a lot are able to use them without paying.
Lime give you nothing for free, it’s Human Forest (or some name like that) that show the first 10-minutes free but they still charge an on hire or off hire fee so there is no free trip just a discounted first trip if you will.
As an infrequent lime user I’d offer the following musings. To visit the Valley, I come into North Greenwich so yes I could walk if it’s a nice day but invariably I wouldn’t have the time so a bus each way is £1.75 and well it’s a bus….
If you just hopped on a Lime and started a trip it’d probably be between £6-9 each way depending on how fast you cycle and how lucky you get with all the poxy traffic lights (as an aside these operators should, I believe, be forced to switch to a distance charging model rather than time charging as this is what causes the dangerous “rush” mentality and not waiting at lights etc.) but you can get pre-pay £3.99 Lime passes that cover you for 30-minutes which is comfortably enough time for both trips (the 30-minutes have to be used in a 24-hr period) so I generally take the 49p hike to avoid being squashed in with other grebby humans on buses and to convince myself that even though it’s an e-bike it may just about give me back the calories I’m going to use for maybe half of my first badly poured pint…. Simples.
What is the real financial cost for individuals using lime bikes and would getting a bus (plus a short walk from the bus stop presumably) be cheaper?
I think you can get the first 10mins of the ride free of charge, so maybe a bus not cheaper. Around here in Peckham it seems a lot are able to use them without paying.
If you hear them making a beeping noise when being ridden, they usually have a fault, and 90% of the time that "fault" is that they are being ridden without someone paying for them
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A second dockless hire bike operator has moved into Greenwich borough to compete with Lime – but with no agreement on creating bays where users can park their cycles.
Forest bikes started to appear across the borough of Lewisham and parts of Greenwich last month. Its bikes can be cheaper than Lime for shorter trips – offering a free ten-minute ride each day before charging 29p per mile – but there are fewer of them.
https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/07/01/forest-bikes-greenwich-lewisham-lime/
Greenwich Council is poised to sign a deal to create parking bays for Lime bikes in part of the borough – two years after plans to try to regulate the dockless cycles were first announced.
Lime will pay the council £30,000 plus £170 per parking bay created as part of a one-year trial. However, only an area around Greenwich town centre will be covered at first.
https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/07/19/greenwich-council-set-to-finally-strike-lime-bike-parking-deal-after-two-years/
In fact a friend of mine did her ACL falling off a lime bike drunk. Worst thing is she had just come back from 2 years recovery and 2 surgeries on her other ACL.
To visit the Valley, I come into North Greenwich so yes I could walk if it’s a nice day but invariably I wouldn’t have the time so a bus each way is £1.75 and well it’s a bus….
If you just hopped on a Lime and started a trip it’d probably be between £6-9 each way depending on how fast you cycle and how lucky you get with all the poxy traffic lights (as an aside these operators should, I believe, be forced to switch to a distance charging model rather than time charging as this is what causes the dangerous “rush” mentality and not waiting at lights etc.) but you can get pre-pay £3.99 Lime passes that cover you for 30-minutes which is comfortably enough time for both trips (the 30-minutes have to be used in a 24-hr period) so I generally take the 49p hike to avoid being squashed in with other grebby humans on buses and to convince myself that even though it’s an e-bike it may just about give me back the calories I’m going to use for maybe half of my first badly poured pint….
Simples.