"We are driving to a compound in London where seized hire e-bikes are taken. In the back of the van, there are three. We are sitting in the front and you can hear their alarms bleeping incessantly behind us. The noise is loud and irritating. Giri Manepalli, who is a street enforcement officer, says sometimes when he finishes a shift, he can still hear the bleeping in his head."
"In Kensington and Chelsea, his team has seized over a thousand dockless hire e-bikes since they began to take on the issue. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is trying to deal with the huge amount of dockless hire e-bikes that end up on its streets. Councillors say badly parked e-bikes are among the main complaints they get from local residents. The problem is there are a lot of hire bikes left in this central London borough, and some are not parked properly."
Seized dockless hire e-bikes are stored at a London compound where their alarms can bleep incessantly. Street enforcement officers regularly encounter loud, irritating alarms and perform repeated retrievals. In Kensington and Chelsea over a thousand dockless hire e-bikes have been seized. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is addressing large numbers of dockless hire e-bikes and frequent complaints about badly parked bikes obstructing pavements and roads. Around half a million hire e-bike journeys start and finish in the borough daily. Official parking bays fill quickly and bikes often stick out into roads. The council charges operators a retrieval fee of 84.45 per unit and has brought in about 100,000 so far.
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