Only lazy riders to blame for dumped bikes and scooters

THE sight of an e-scooter or an e-bike dumped on the streets of Nottingham is becoming one of the city’s must-see attractions.

- By OLIVER PRIDMORE

Just like a trip to Nottingham Castle and a pint in The Trip, tourists have not truly seen all Nottingham has to offer until they stumble on one of these vehicles flung in the middle of the pavement.

Joking aside, it is quite understandably becoming an increasing annoyance for those living, working and studying in Nottingham.

When seeing either the bright blue scooters or vivid green bikes out of place and in the way, the instinctive reaction is often to blame the companies operating them.

To a degree, these operators absolutely should be taking responsibility for their vehicles being dumped all over our city. Yet I feel we have now reached the limit of what these operators can realistically do.

My walk into work on Monday proved just that. In my half-hour walk from the Forest Rec to our office, I again saw around 10 e-scooters or e-bikes chucked in the middle of the street before the day had even got into full swing.