I’m a carer for my disabled mother, but I’m always a huge believer of fuck cars. I’m super excited about all initiatives that reduce the number of cars on our roads as long as they put alternatives in place. That said, my mum does most of her shopping online, but occasionally she has days when she feels well enough to get outside and see things. So when I see things like this, I instantly think about ways she would be impacted. Under no circumstances am I advocating for a reversal of this decision in any way. But if they added some form of short transportation, I think it would increase accessibility for people like my mum. The decision isn’t mine to make or flesh out for feasibility, but I would be a shit son if I didn’t speak up about things I’m cognizant of and maybe one day, someone far smarter than I will provide a solution.

The whole world isn’t even allowed to drive up there now, so why would anyone, let alone me, argue for that? Don’t be ridiculous.

The whole sub-thread was me saying that this affects some people in negative ways and everyone acting like what I said is the worst thing ever.

Not surprising given that my initial comment was me effectively commenting that the time of big shopping streets is at an end due to the fact that it’s cheaper online but that it would be good for tourism.

I didn’t even use big words, I don’t know what there is to be confused about. 😵‍💫

I think there are disabled people that aren’t able to travel autonomously/independently and that the public transportation available is a godsend to them.

Have you ever actually walked down oxford street?

Sorry, I weren’t looking through my ableist lens properly.

online shopping is hilariously much more expensive and inconvenient than just popping down to the shops

On what planet?

Not Feds 🤮

😂

It’s been closed to cars for about 15 years

I grab mine from https://www.therathertastyteapeople.co.uk/ but I feel they need bigger refills

They’ll never compete against online shopping prices or convenience. Making it harder to traverse isn’t going to fix that. But it will make it a nicer day out for tourists.

That’s clearly not what I’m talking about. I’m referring to the ability to leave them parked on any road. You’re once again conflating that with bad actors.

When you get off of a Lime Bike the app requires you to take a picture of how you parked it. The ability to find bikes local to people even where there are no docks/bays increases public health and transport links.

If bikes are found flat on the pavement or blocking the pavement, that’s a public disorder problem, not a Lime Bike problem and should be tackled as such.

But most people aren’t littering the bikes. What you get is a bunch of people attempting to hack the bikes and they leave them anywhere, along with drunk and disorderly people that kick them over. Why are you punishing all the people that leave them properly parked?

It reminds me of how taxi drivers kept objecting to Uber.

Yes, we need more parking bays and that’s on local councils to provide, but leaving them anywhere helps everyone. I’ve never seen a Santander bay South of the river for example.

Punish the bad actors. London has more CCTV than any other city in the world. Put it to good use.

They keep conflating public disorder issues with Lime Biker issues and all for what? To further empower cars?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ඞ

When you parse that code, it presents this ඞ symbol, which looks close enough to the famous characters from Among Us, the viral video game.

The greed of Google will never end.

Didn’t she just have a baby?

I think the truck driver is thinking about riders in blind spots and so trying to solve proximity visibility with ambient light.

1. Wait, long running design blog offers visual orientated content and is subsequently suspicious.
2. It’s talking about a product that’s still a Kickstarter project, what do you want?
3. I don’t even know what to say about your third point, it’s just ridiculous.

It’s a design blog, they’ll always opt for overly designed things.