Lime pumps £1m into parking to tackle London e-bike clutter

Green bike conglomerate Lime is pumping nearly £1m into hundreds of new e-bike parking bays as it looks to tackle the pavement clutter that has accompanied London s rental bike boom. The capital’s biggest shared e-bike operator has awarded £886,857 to nine boroughs, including Greenwich, Lambeth and Hackney, to create or expand 586 parking bays this year. Lime is now offering a further £1m to councils to ease overcrowding at existing bays and address one of the biggest complaints about the rapid spread of rental bikes across London. Over one million cycling journeys are now made in the capital each day, according to Transport for London (TfL) figures cited by Lime, with one in 10 taken on a shared e-bike. But the surge in demand has left councils grappling with where to put the growing number of bikes, particularly in busy parts of central and inner London. More people than ever are choosing shared e-bikes to get around London , Alice Pleasant, Lime’s deputy regional head o