🟦 𝐃𝐨𝐭𝐭: 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞-𝐛𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ‘𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥’…𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐞 (𝐔𝐛𝐞𝐫) 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨.

 Dockless e-bike firm Dott, is quitting London, and sending its bikes to Paris, saying that the capital’s bike rental market is “totally out of control”.

Dott said the failure to regulate e-bikes in a similar way to e-scooters “made no sense” and was bad for business and for people who hired the bikes.

It is removing its 2,500 machines from the streets and sending them to Paris and Rome.

Henri Moissinac, chief executive of Dott, criticised rival firms for “flooding” central London with bikes, which he admitted caused problems for pedestrians when they were left abandoned on pavements.

He went on to say, “London is the only place where you have two modes side by side — one regulated by TfL, the e-scooters, and the other that is totally out of control, that is the e-bike.”

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓: 

But it’s not as good as it could be. Is this another conspiracy between TfL and the Cycling Lobby, so that the government will give them the power to regulate all dockless bikes in London?

 

At present, there are no laws governing rental bikes. This has led to a “patchwork” system where some councils offer to “license” operators while requiring rivals to use “geofence” technology to prevent their bikes crossing their borough boundary.

Dott will not be quitting the capital altogether, instead it will now focus on e-scooters…It will have 1,750 for hire in the second phase of the TfL-run trial, which starts on Monday.