New e-bikes have launched across Nottingham. A fleet of up to 700 shared electric bikes are available across the city on a pay-as-you basis.
The scheme is a partnership between Nottingham City Council and e-bike providers Lime, which runs the same scheme in London, Milton Keynes and Salford. Riders will need to use the Lime app and will be required to park and collect e-bikes at one of about 100 designated parking bays around the city.
Users are charged 19p per minute, along with an initial £1 payment. This works out at £12.40 for a one-hour hire.
Read more: New fleet of electric bikes rolled out across Nottingham
People have been quick to share their views on the new e-bikes with some questioning why the bikes did not come with helmets. Others have raised concerns about the number of bikes being dumped around the city.
Below is a letter published in the Nottingham Post this week. You can write a letter of your own to NottinghamshireLive and the Nottingham Post by filling in the simple form below.
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Does anyone but the council back e-bikes?
I suppose the council thought electric bikes were a good idea. I don’t think so.
I have just walked past two – one was burnt out at the bottom of Swains Avenue and the other one dumped in the middle of the pavement a few feet away. I thought they were supposed to be left in a designated area?
I think pedestrians have enough to cope with – yellow scooters dumped anywhere, bikes are ridden on the pavements even where there is a cycle track, and another cycle track being put on Carlton Road that’s a waste of money. Then there are the illegal scooters whizzing around on the pavements.
I have had several near misses with them – you cannot hear them coming. I read that 13 people have been killed in the UK with these illegal scooters, one in Notts ridden illegally by a 14-year-old without a licence.
You cannot get a licence until you are 16 years old. I would like to know where is a safe place for pedestrians to walk.
Linda Smith
Nottingham
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