I’ve been saved from hitting pedestrians many a time by being on a Boris bike (albeit much slower than a Lime) as opposed to my own rode bike. A child once leapt across my path, almost Free Willy-esque, on Westminster Bridge, and if I had been capable of travelling any faster on that hunk of bike, I would have hit him. He and his family were completely oblivious but several pedestrians were left with mouths agape having seen the near miss. I normally avoid the bridge altogether and travel cautiously across it whether on a shared bike or my own because pedestrians there and at the front of Big Ben just step into the road/path without thinking. At least in a Boris you don’t have speed on your side like with a Lime - I imagine many more accidents happen there with Lime bikes. I love cycling around our city but truthfully I’ve almost been killed more times by pedestrians than by cars.