Where bays have been marked such as Carlton Drive, Lime deliver huge amounts of bikes almost every day. They fill up the entire bay and the same again outside the bay. All very tightly crammed so up to 27 plus bikes. That leaves no room for returns within the bay. There they remain all day.Inconsiderate returns are inevitable as a direct result.Car parking bays are also covered with bikes.The consultations stated that the bays would be monitored by ebike providers and WBC. It is not. Daily complaints to Lime are met with generic emails stating they will send someone to remove badly parked bikes, they do not.The top of Oxford road has also been inundated with bikes closing off the pavement.It seems that despite the consultations showing return bay locations, WBC are opening more bays without consulting residents or doing a fair assessment of the consequences on residents of the methods used by Lime.It was all on a trial basis but no monitoring has been done. The consultations stated that once a bay was marked, it would be compulsory to return to that bay. No one is enforcing this at all. The theory of how this should work has not been the reality. Lime, since October, has behaved badly but seem to have the ear of WBC. I signed up to the ebikes bay as initially described in the consultation documents: a trial with monitoring, no returns outside the marked bay. Lime and WBC are not adhering to the enforcement part of the deal. This chaos may come to a street near you soon without any consultation.
Patricia Poulter ● 18d