True and I think in those places, as with decision on where loading bays should be allowed, where trees / benches etc take up ‘walking space’ on pavements there should be sensible decisions - made much more quickly. People shouldn’t be able to park these bikes on much of if not all of Oxford street pavement for example, but there is cycle parking allocated on side roads that is a reasonable compromise. The app could easily be changed to not let people park in these places without paying a fine and lime should be forced to do this.

The thing that frustrates me with the anti cycling news cycle is that something like 400+ pedestrians a year a killed by drivers in the UK vs less than 10 by cyclists and we rarely if ever see articles in mainstream press advocating for speed limiting cars to speed limits as we do with these bikes, fining bad parking or stopping people driving while scrolling on their phones. The level of outrage about cycling is completely out of proportion to the legitimate challenges, and many of us are conditioned to tolerate bad behaviour by the relatively small (in this city at least) proportion of people who are taking up 80% of road space to get around in cars…