ignoring all the cars parked on the pavement, have you considered picking it up and moving it 1 metre
Or just walking around it lol
I had to walk five extra steps around a bicycle, billions must die.
Reality is like a lazy vidya game made circa 2006, this person cannot go that way; it is completely blocked
Mobility aids are a thing.
And yes, the cars need keying as well.
I move these things, and those god forsaken scooters, all the fucking time.. they start beeping at you like you're stealing them lol
They're heavy. Way heavier than a regular bike.
Getting off my bicycle, putting the kickstand down, and taking a picture of it so I can post angrily about it on the internet
Those rental bikes/scooters are stupid though. I see them block wheelchair ramps and sidewalks all the time. And yes I did pick it up and throw it in the bushes.
You're wrong about the bikes. Inexpensive rental bicycles are a great solution to a myriad of problems. And for every bike parked in a wheelchair ramp there is 10 cars blocking handicap parking.
They're great when they're run by the city and there's designated spots to park/charge them. Our city does have one such program, but that doesn't stop the bazingabrains from littering the sidewalks with their versions. There's also the issue that they externalize all the losses by "renting" the bikes to 3rd parties who have to go around at night charging the things and eat the losses when they get broken/stolen.
They're right about the bikes. It's mainly tourists that make use of them, and - unlike with in-person rentals - the people renting are given no course on road safety or how to signal. So you get a bunch of drunk people with no knowledge or respect of trafic barreling thru bikelanes way too fast, only to then ditch their bikes on the aforementioned bikelane, because they do not own the bike and they give no fucks about the place they're at and there is no system of accountability. I see this all the time, it sucks and I hate it.
The bike is also way heavier than a normal bike.
A bike rental run by the city is a good thing, but these private "disruptions" are just leeching off of good public infrastructure whilst making it worse for all involved.
The bikes aren't stupid; they didn't block anything, their riders did. They work great in places with good infrastructure and a conscientious community.
Your naivety is palpable. Yes, in a world devoid of humans and in a vacuum it would probably work. But who would then use the bikes?
Why do you figure that is?
Because the rental companies were all created by bazingabrains who don't care about externalities and never contacted the communities they just dump these things in. There aren't designated zones in place to park these things and even if there were the market is oversaturated by a bunch of VC subsidized companies. The app has the ability to detect when you leave them in a bad spot but won't actually enforce anything.
Not dunk worthy imo. Telling bazinga Techbro compamies to pick up after themselves is good, if ineffective. One bike blocking a sidewalk is a minor nuisance, sure, but if you don't complain about it it'll just keep happening and maybe even get worse since the company will increase distribution.
There's a instinctive desire to defend bikes, but this is conceptually not much different from Uber leaving a delivery bot parked on a sidewalk or something. Bikes are good and bike sharing schemes can be good, but this is obviously not s good system.
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There's a instinctive desire to defend bikes, but this is conceptually not much different from Uber leaving a delivery bot parked on a sidewalk or something.
It's also not conceptually different from all those parked cars, including ones that protrude onto the sidewalk, to which the twitter post seems to take no offense.
The systems work great if they have proper infrastructure to support them (see China), but governments aren't going to build good infrastructure if the systems are sabotaged first by people throwing the bikes in canals or whatever.
I'm posting as hard as I can, but the bike still isn't moving
This is a private corporation who owns these bikes and they are encroaching on public land for profit
Cars are bad. But rental scooters and bikes being thrown all over the place and blocking pedestrian infrastructure because the bazinga companies owning them are not being held accountable is a public nuisance.
Able-bodied persons can move the damn thing or step over them and only be mildly inconvenienced but doing that is not so easy if you are disabled, elderly or if you're just walking with a stroller. Also, a scooter or bike littering a bike lane can be dangerous in poor lighting or other poor visibility situations.
A type of system where people ride their own bikes or scooters and can bring them on public transit is much to be preferred as people care about those and park them sensibly.
Quick idea: Give everyone their own bike and charge tourists a mandatory tax that gives them a rental bike for the duration of their stay, that they are responsible for returning.
David should trying crying about it.
The parking situation in the UK is becoming atrocious. People just park their cars all over the fucking pavement and on verges, blocking wheelchair users and low-mobility people. I see driveways with six cars and then more cars parked outside on the pavement like holy fuck how many cars do you need? Roads that could easily accomodate cars driving in opposite directions five years ago are now effectively one-way roads because cars block up an entire half of the road.
And you can't key them or let the air out of the tyres any more because of the doorbell surveillance network people have opted themselves into, or there are cameras on the cars themselves.
It's the worst when they are parked in the middle of a bit path, and so I really hate lime, but c'mon dude you're a pedestrian! Those cars pose a bigger problem
David Harvey's Anti-Cyclist Chronicles
sees red line painted on the asphalt
I hope there isn't a fire anywhere near there, those firetrucks might not hesitate to wreck any vehicles that get in the way of putting out a fire.
I hope the fire truck doesn't suffer too much damage.
I will never forget watching some youths throw one of these on the DLR tracks in the early days
Then pick it up and move it you lazy bum
They're heavy as fuck. They're genuinely difficult to move.
Especially if you are elderly or disabled
Mad ableism ITT
Where?
Every single “just move it” comment
