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Lime bike contractors snatch back cycles seized for blocking London roads

Police have been called in after contractors working for e-bike firm Lime went into a London council’s pound to snatch back dozens of cycles seized for blocking roads and pavements.

Evening Standard

Superpedestrian pulls out of Chicago scooter-rental market

The company blamed stiff competition with competitor Lyft, which operates the city’s Divvy short-term bike rental service.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lime reports over 1 million scooter rides in Chicago this year

The San Francisco-based company attributes part of the boom to the equity discount offered on the South and West sides.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Paris Says Goodbye To Electric Scooter Rentals, E-Bike Sharing Encouraged

In Paris, France, electric scooter rentals have been officially banned, following a votation that saw 90 percent of participants in favor of the ban.

InsideEVs

Westminster council outlines plans for crackdown on dockless e-bikes littering streets

The new arrangement in the borough will be in place for an 18-month trial period

Evening Standard

Paris becomes first major European capital to ban rental e-scooters

Paris has become the first major European capital to ban rental electric scooters from its streets.

Evening Standard

Rented electric scooters vanish from Paris streets

Parisians woke up on Friday to a world without rented electric scooters, loathed as a pedestrian-bothering nuisance by some but mourned by others.

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Melbourne e-scooters will ‘shout’ at riders in no-go areas, deputy mayor says

Nicholas Reece says council’s ‘technological solutions’ will crack down on ‘hoon behaviour’ such as riding on footpaths

The Guardian - AU

Lime calls for 10,000 e-bike bays across London to help tackle problem parking

Councils have been inundated with complaints about rental electric bikes blocking pavements

Evening Standard

Lime tests scooters with seats in Chicago

Electric scooter-rental company Lime is testing out models with seats in Chicago to help boost ridership while giving riders’ legs a rest.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fresh action to stop rental e-bikes being abandoned on pavements in central London

Camden council has signed contracts with two dockless e-bike firms, Lime and Human Forest, that include requirements for poorly parked bikes to be moved ‘swiftly’

Evening Standard

‘What sprocket left that bike there?’ My life as a pedestrian in badly behaved Britain

I’m all for cycle hire schemes, but nothing brings out the grumpy old man in me like e-bikes strewn across the pavement

The Guardian - UK

West End cyclists will have to park e-bikes in bay to halt clutter

Westminster council is drawing up plans with bike hire firms which will effectively turn some key streets into e-bike-free zones

Evening Standard

I tried Nottingham's new Lime e-bikes and it was an absolute thrill

The bike needed little pedalling

Nottingham Post

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Nottingham Post

Anger at new Nottingham electric bikes 'littering streets' as bad riders to be fined and banned

Lime electric bikes, which can be rented on a pay-as-you-go basis, were launched across the city on Friday, April 14

The Guardian - UK

Cycle hire: how poor parking put a spoke in the wheel of city schemes

The boom in e-bike rental schemes may be good for the planet, but dumped bikes have become a dangerous urban blight

Nottingham Post

Letters: 'I would like to know where in Nottingham is safe for pedestrians to walk'

Readers have their say on new e-bike scheme

Nottingham Post

New e-bikes a 'positive' for Nottingham city centre

They're available on a pay-as-you go basis

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Nottingham Post

Nottingham e-bikes operator explains why devices do not include helmet

The bikes are available to hire across the city on a pay-as-you-go basis from Friday, April 14.

Nottingham Post

New fleet of electric bikes rolled out across Nottingham

The bikes are available to hire across the city on a pay-as-you-go basis

Fortune

The city that pioneered electric scooters will take them off the street—and big rental operators are fuming

Lime, Dott, and Tier Mobility SE all said they believed Paris officials deliberately designed a referendum that seemed guaranteed to result in a ban.

Radio France Internationale

Paris votes to become first EU capital to ban rental e-scooters

Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners. But turnout was low.

Reuters

Paris to ban e-scooters from September

Paris will ban electric scooters from September 1, the French capital's mayor said, after the public voted to remove them from the streets, however e-scooter operators said on Monday they hoped to stop the plan.

France 24

Parisians vote to ban self-service e-scooter rentals from French capital

Parisians voted Sunday in a referendum to ban self-service e-scooter rentals in the French capital. While they have become commonplace since they were first introduced in 2018, a rising accident toll has hardened attitudes towards the "trottinette".

The Independent UK

No more room for vroom? Paris votes on banishing e-scooters

The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ experiment with for-hire electric scooters

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