'Taken for a ride': Waverley mayor throws down gauntlet on share bikes
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And he can see the problem the bikes are causing just by walking around, he said.
“There are large numbers of broken bikes, there are bikes lying on top of the road surface or on the footpath sideways, two, three and four bikes, even 15 bikes all clustered together in piles.
“There are now bikes so packed on footpaths at Bronte that people can’t get around the footpath anymore, they have to walk around onto the road. There are nine dumped bikes at the back of Bondi Pavilion that have been sitting there for six weeks.”
A mayoral minute on the matter, which gained unanimous support from councillors at last Tuesday’s council meeting, proposed not only to audit and impound damaged and abandoned bikes, but to look into the option of issuing operators with a clean up order for the bikes that are clearly “just dumped rubbish now”.
The order, under the environment protection act, would see share bike operators issued with a $500 fine and legal requirement to clean up the mess.
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