Category Archives: Lime bicycles

Docked: Lime hire bike trial is abandoned after just six months

Posted on December 9, 2019 by insidecroydon

JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on another failed council initiative The 12-month trial in Croydon of Lime bikes, the dockless hire bicycles equipped with electric motors, has been abandoned before reaching the halfway stage. Senior Town Hall sources suggest that an … Continue reading →

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How Lime puts the squeeze on bike riders, at 15p per minute

Posted on June 10, 2019 by insidecroydon

KEN TOWL took a ride on one of the new dockless e-bikes that can be found in the borough, so that you don’t have to… The future has arrived in Croydon, and the future is green. Lime green. The future … Continue reading →

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Lime bikes are falling over themselves to be taken for a ride

Posted on May 11, 2019 by insidecroydon

This is the scene outside West Croydon railway station yesterday afternoon. The dockless Lime e-bike trial in Croydon is less than one week in, and already one of the more obvious, predictable, shortcomings with a dockless bike hire scheme was … Continue reading →

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Dockless scheme launched as Croydon stays in bike slow lane

Posted on May 10, 2019 by insidecroydon

Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, finds the council adding a dash of Lime to its otherwise questionable green credentials Just as the rest of the country appears to be abandoning dockless bicycle hire schemes, Croydon Council has belatedly jumped aboard … Continue reading →

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