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Melbourne council votes to scrap Lime ebikes for failing to meet ‘bare minimum standards’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Fair enough.
It's a shame that it didn't work out, but the council is right with this one:
And I think Lime's response is a bit disingenuous:
Perhaps we should ban cars for user behaviour... but that of course is beside the point. Ebikes are not being banned or removed; only Lime's service is being discontinued. So this decision is nothing like 'banning cars'. A much closer analogy would be telling GoGet to end their car sharing operation due to users dumping those cars the middle of random roads or footpaths. (GoGet users don't do that, obviously, and so their service can continue.)