I am much more pro lime bike than most people, I’ve found them useful for getting around unfamiliar cities, and like that they get cars off roads.
But this is insane. This is the bike rack at a T1 train station. Absolutely full of lime bikes.
I tried to park my bike and could barely squeeze into the single spare slot, and on some days there are no slots available.
This is a commuter bike rack, and if you know this station you’ll know it’s actually a fair way from the road down a hill, not even visible from the road even, so I’m surprised they’re allowed to put the bikes here. I don’t love the idea of people trying these bikes out for the first time on a fairly steep hill.
But more importantly, these bike racks are for commuters. We paid for them with our tax dollars. And lime get to use them?
Even if you could argue that commuters will use these (which is still a dumb argument as it actively takes away spots from commuters), these bikes have kick stands for fucks sake. They stand up on their own. What bright spark thought they need to be crowded around a bike rack?
Basically - who do I contact council, TfNSW, or Lime?
Edit: before people posit that maybe this was a group of people leaving them there. Nope, I ride to this station once or twice a week. Sometimes there are far more bikes, such a large bunch that it actively constricts the path to the station. Sometimes there are 1 or 2, or no bikes. Someone from like is absolutely replenishing them. They are usually much neater than this, to be fair.