If you are a company making a fortune out of renting these bikes you are immune from any penalty.
It is time the Council collected and impounded these bikes and charged their antisocial owners a large fee to release them.
It is not right that public rights of way are obstructed in this dangerous manner.
Absolutely right, they have for too long gotten away with being a danger to the public and to vulnerable people ie wheelchair users, people with visual impairments and the elderly. The so called owners/managers of this company know full well who booked them last and should fine them for not leaving them in safe place. Enough of this mess!
ReplyDeleteWell said. They are a menace. RBKC collects and prosecutes those who dump stuff in our streets; so they can do the same for the hundreds of hire bikes etc that are regularly abandoned.
ReplyDeleteIf a company issues bikes without sites available to park them - legally and safely - they are dumping.
When RBKC finds the source of dumping, £150 fines are routinely issued. A purposely abandoned, commercial, hired bike should be fined @ £300 a time for recovery and storage etc.
That should sort this problem. Unless of course, like happened with Uber, the owners of the bike dumping businesses are buddies of our senior politicians!
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