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Letter: Guildford Can’t Be Trusted with E-Bikes for Hire
Published on: 7 Dec, 2024
Updated on: 7 Dec, 2024
Abandoned Beryl Bike in Markenfield Road
From Andrew Eacott
See also: I Can See Why It Takes Days for Dumped E-bikes To Be Collected
I wanted to share this photo (taken on Markenfield Road on Thursday, December 5). I think this is a perfect example of why the people of Guildford can’t be trusted to have schemes like Beryl Bikes.
Why is there no follow-up with those who rent these bikes and leave them in incredibly unsafe places?
Editor’s response: We intend to report further on this situation tomorrow. Please check back.
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Warren Gill
December 7, 2024 at 10:53 pm
Simple collect them up if they’re just dumped or abandoned and then when a few have been collected take them to Slyfield dump for recycling. Then repeat until they’re all gone and make sure that they’re not replaced.
Trevor Perry
December 8, 2024 at 8:19 am
I would have walked it across the road to the marked area for these bicycles or at least moved it out of the road. But I do get the point bbeing made.
Andrew Eacott
December 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Just to be clear, I did move it.
X Goodwin
December 9, 2024 at 8:40 am
I was fortunate to have Beryl “install” some bikes at the end of my road. Used them a couple of times, they worked great.
Unfortunately the local yobs kept leaving them in the turning circle, stealing them and generally mistreating the bikes. Now that zone has been discontinued.
What a waste of effort and money. Not sure why they couldn’t have proper docks like Boris bikes as it would avoid a lot of this mess.
Roland Dunster
December 9, 2024 at 2:45 am
In a borough where littering and, increasingly, painting graffiti are utterly normalised, its perpetrators facing no consequences whatsoever, I can’t imagine why anyone expected anything different for this cycle scheme?
Until the socially, environmentally and financially-corrosive effects of litter, graffiti and antisocial behaviour such as this are met with the full, overt and regular enforcement of laws and fines (via a local authority support provider if need be), they will continue unabated.
I’m sorry if this all sounds rather bleak and harsh, but if we truly wish to be rid of these incredibly damaging scourges, we must, seriously, treat the causes, and not just the symptoms.
David Roberts
December 11, 2024 at 7:25 pm
I tend to agree. Google “broken windows theory” or see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Tony Harrison
December 11, 2024 at 12:39 pm
As if this was ever going to work in a lawless, unpoliced, grotty, gridlocked failing town like Guildford. How much taxpayers’ money has been wasted on yet another ludicrous project?
Brian Holt
December 12, 2024 at 9:15 pm
Guildford Borough Council have provided £250,000 towards it, at a time when it’s has no money to get all the void properties that are empty in the borough repaired to let to tenants again.
Derek Payne
December 29, 2024 at 11:26 am
As well as GBC funding £250,000, SCC have provided £1,050,000.
Editor’s comment: as has been previously reported in The Dragon.