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Letter: Dumped E-bike in Burpham There for 36 Hours
Published on: 7 Nov, 2024
Updated on: 8 Nov, 2024
Beryl e-bike left in Weylea Avenue
From Paul Robinson
In response to: Dumped E-bike Provokes Questions
With regard to the article on Beryl bikes, this bike was dumped in Weylea Avenue, Burpham, on Saturday night (November 2) and was still there on Monday morning.
Editor’s response: Details of where reports of dumped Beryl e-bikes can be sent can be found in the linked story.
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Roland Dunster
November 10, 2024 at 1:40 am
At the launch of this scheme I expressed my concern here that these bikes would soon be added to the appalling litter that blights and pollutes every corner and environment of the borough and county.
I truly wish I wasn’t right on both issues.
Jim Allen
November 10, 2024 at 6:36 pm
In reference to litter in Guildford I must say the new incumbent environmental director, Marcus Harvey, who has recently taken up post – is of a different character to those who he has succeeded. I am the first to speak up when things are wrong but when they are right I am happy to sing the council’s praise. This new broom has bristles!
Roland Dunster
November 13, 2024 at 8:15 am
I sincerely hope that Jim Allen is right regarding Mr Harvey, as the current litter “strategy”/expensive vicious cycle of, allow consequence-free littering; cursory cleaning; allow consequence-free littering, is demonstrably failing.
In fairness, this is shamefully a local and national problem as almost all local and national authorities are guilty of partially treating the symptoms, and not the actual causes. I do hope therefore that the full and overt enforcement of laws and fines forms part of any new anti-litter approach, even if it requires the assistance of a private authority support provider.
I’m sorry if this all sounds rather harsh, but simply by opening one’s eyes, stepping outside and walking or driving in any direction, it’s clear that, sadly, “please don’t litter”, just doesn’t cut it anymore.