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I was cycling home, during the eclipse, and my route took me through Greenwich park. Yes there were a load of Lime bikes left partially blocking the road but the biggest issue for me was all the car drivers parking their vehicles wherever they wanted in the park. At the top of the main hill, blocking the roundabout (only the bollards stopped them going any further), along the paths, everywhere. I had to weave around them to get through. Half of them just sat, blocked in by other vehicles, in their cars watching the eclipse. What was the point in driving to the park for that?

@mdavidford Not in normal sunglasses!

You mean like, say, yesterday?

"Sure, it wouldn’t do any harm to have more spaces for parking, that doesn’t make it OK to just park where you want because there aren’t enough." You need to visit my neighborhood - it looks like. tsunami has passed through

Brompton Bicycle sues former accounting and tax advisor AAB Group for 'professional negligence' https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2088223417875013674?s=20 https://www.cityam.com/brompton-bicycle-sues-former-adviser-for-professional-negligence/

Don't get this bike or Trek's thinking. It looks like a last gen Canyon Endurace. But while most brands are adding in frame storage, they've removed it. And a bike that already had 'endurance' geometry now has riser bars and not very well hidden cables.

@tomlew Doesn't seem to have one.

A blue Gresham Flyer was my first bike too, handed down from my big sister in about 1972. I can't recall much about the handling or feel but I remember we put it through an awful lot of torture in terms of riding off road, doing jumps on it etc so it must have been pretty solidly built!

"But isn't this just the same as if people used their own bikes?" No, not just because it's a company dumping them in public space as opposed to people storing them at home much of the time. People are much more motivated to care about their own property. I also suspect that people owning bikes involves less moving them around via motorised transport than cycle hire schemes (though a study would help!) How to fix the "public space problem"? In NL where they have problems of success they've planning rules that require provision of cycle parking in new- builds. They build giant bicycle-stables in city centres and at public transport hubs. And there is a national "last mile" non-dockless rental scheme that's well integrated with that public transport (OV Fiets).

OTOH "less harm" because bikes - but wouldn't it be better not to have the issue at all?