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I once drove quite a way down Holloway Road on a Saturday morning behind a 43 bus that had a sizeable bright green dildo stuck on the back of it bouncing jauntily as the driver navigated the many potholes.
The ham sandwich story is the classic “lie that travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on”, isn’t it? Utterly shameless behaviour from Restore…
This time, Lime (of Lime-leg fame) treating local safety agreements as optional when their multi-billion dollar valuation is on the line. Lime chooses to compromise the safety of Londoners to build a new income stream from couriers and our politicians and counsellors stand idle. Again. Time and again, your reports expose that our political and local government bodies remain permanently behind the curve.
The only people that lose out are Londoners.
- Online marketplaces and retailers openly sell high-power battery modification kits and throttles without any legal constraints
- Cheap, non-compliant lithium-ion batteries keep causing fires - a risk to those of us in London's high-rise buildings.
- Couriers routinely ignoring the highway code because the gig-economy model directly rewards illegal risk-taking and an over-stretched police resourcing prohibits enforcement of the Highway Code.
It is an exhausting loop: a major US corporation bypasses the rules for top-line economic gain; institutional policy fails to adapt or police; and the only people who suffer are us Londoners on the ground.
I’m glad you are naming and shaming here those who knowingly share misinformation with the intent of stirring up racial tensions. It’s disgraceful and dangerous.
Any mention of Coyle should come with a note that he's had complaints upheld against him both for racism and for sexual harassment. Shameful that Labour reselected him.
The ham sandwich story, what can one say? I suspect the school office staff probably had to field a bunch of calls from idiots as well as journalists. The senior management team probably had to spend time deciding how they were going to manage this. This meant that time that should have been spent on children's education was instead spent on something that was nonsense.
Just to note, the lime bikes also stop on the Thames path in South East London as well. I used them occasionally when I lived in Charlton, but cycling to North Greenwich tube station was always annoying, because the lime bike steered you away from the Thames path (that is, the cycle path route - admittedly one with too many blind corners in my opinion, especially since it’s shared with pedestrians) and on to a main road.
Well for a limited time only you too can sign up as a delivery driver and go at full speed along there. Although having cycled it, I wouldn’t want to take on those corners!
How do you come up with this FecesTaureum? EAPC are legally limited to 15.5mph with assistance so any operation that disables this is illegal & cycles will be seized & probably destroyed Barca where automated bike hire on a large city scale started in 2009 has now evoked all the bike hire licences for the many operators to consolidate the mess, which is what London has to do as well Bike hire in London needs to be just lie catching a bus, all done with the Oyster Card. In 30 years I’ve seen every wrong move repeated many times as well
I once drove quite a way down Holloway Road on a Saturday morning behind a 43 bus that had a sizeable bright green dildo stuck on the back of it bouncing jauntily as the driver navigated the many potholes.
Comment of the day, thank you.
The ham sandwich story is the classic “lie that travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on”, isn’t it? Utterly shameless behaviour from Restore…
Brandolini’s Law
From last night all three of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham are run by Greens who used to be Labour councillors and moved party in 2025.
Quite a commitment to recycling from the Greens.
Same in Haringey. New Green leader Mark Blake quit Labour in 2023 over Gaza.
An early one! What's most astonishing really is Southwark - where McAsh was actually elected Labour leader last year.
"we're only testing things"... live... amongst vulnerable park users. It's criminal they get away with this. Thanks for spotting.
Yet again, London Centric delivers.
This time, Lime (of Lime-leg fame) treating local safety agreements as optional when their multi-billion dollar valuation is on the line. Lime chooses to compromise the safety of Londoners to build a new income stream from couriers and our politicians and counsellors stand idle. Again. Time and again, your reports expose that our political and local government bodies remain permanently behind the curve.
The only people that lose out are Londoners.
- Online marketplaces and retailers openly sell high-power battery modification kits and throttles without any legal constraints
- Cheap, non-compliant lithium-ion batteries keep causing fires - a risk to those of us in London's high-rise buildings.
- Couriers routinely ignoring the highway code because the gig-economy model directly rewards illegal risk-taking and an over-stretched police resourcing prohibits enforcement of the Highway Code.
It is an exhausting loop: a major US corporation bypasses the rules for top-line economic gain; institutional policy fails to adapt or police; and the only people who suffer are us Londoners on the ground.
Again.
"Move fast and break things" is alive and well at Lime I see.
“Move fast and break legs”
I’m glad you are naming and shaming here those who knowingly share misinformation with the intent of stirring up racial tensions. It’s disgraceful and dangerous.
Any mention of Coyle should come with a note that he's had complaints upheld against him both for racism and for sexual harassment. Shameful that Labour reselected him.
The ham sandwich story, what can one say? I suspect the school office staff probably had to field a bunch of calls from idiots as well as journalists. The senior management team probably had to spend time deciding how they were going to manage this. This meant that time that should have been spent on children's education was instead spent on something that was nonsense.
Should public apologies not be demanded for the ham sandwich lie? As in very public indeed - not just on social media.
Another reason to bring back the stocks IMO...
Which council does the last story relate to? It's not named..
DOH. Editing error by me. You can check, read, read again, read again and still that slips through. Apologies.
It's Southwark. Copy now corrected.
Was just about to write!
Just to note, the lime bikes also stop on the Thames path in South East London as well. I used them occasionally when I lived in Charlton, but cycling to North Greenwich tube station was always annoying, because the lime bike steered you away from the Thames path (that is, the cycle path route - admittedly one with too many blind corners in my opinion, especially since it’s shared with pedestrians) and on to a main road.
Well for a limited time only you too can sign up as a delivery driver and go at full speed along there. Although having cycled it, I wouldn’t want to take on those corners!
Great London reporting! I would still prefer to read it in printed form, but am aware that I‘m in a minority.
Thanks Eva! I mean I can fire up the laser printer if you really want….!
Not tempted to fire up an old 2nd hand Riso to make a one-off zine like 404 Media did?
https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/
HUGE respect for those six sex toy owners who contacted TFL to be reunited with them
How do you come up with this FecesTaureum? EAPC are legally limited to 15.5mph with assistance so any operation that disables this is illegal & cycles will be seized & probably destroyed Barca where automated bike hire on a large city scale started in 2009 has now evoked all the bike hire licences for the many operators to consolidate the mess, which is what London has to do as well Bike hire in London needs to be just lie catching a bus, all done with the Oyster Card. In 30 years I’ve seen every wrong move repeated many times as well
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