Or maybe LimeBike is offering underwater tours. In any case, Steve Holt noticed one of the rental bikes sleeping with the fishes in the water off the Harborwalk in East Boston near the East Pier development. Unlike Blue Bikes, these green-and-yellow bikes from north of town are "dockless," which means people are supposed to just leave them wherever they want.
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Is this the way to the Octopus Garden?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:07pm
Steve Holt!!!
By notsteveholt
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:20pm
Steve Holt!!!
STEVE HOLT!
By GerhardM
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:38pm
STEVE HOLT!!!
This shows that yuppys are
By East Boston resident
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:52pm
This shows that yuppys are not wanted in East Boston, someone out there does not like the idea of neighborhood improvements or gentrification or turning Eastie into another Cambridge.
No it doesn't
By adamg
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 2:18pm
The bikes aren't from Boston, they're from places like Malden, so it's more likely somebody just get fed up seeing them littering up the street. Or it could just be your run-of-the-mill doofus who saw a bike not locked to anything and felt like practicing his tossing.
Saw a bunch of the Lime Bikes
By anon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 5:38pm
Saw a bunch of the Lime Bikes in Winthrop today (apparently they launched there in June), which should explain why so many are showing up in Eastie.
Mass deployment in E Watertown
By uberellis
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 3:45pm
About 10 days ago there was a mass deployment in Coolledge Sq on all 4 corners of the intersection of Mt Auburn St and Arlington St. And I did a data project on BlueBikes/Hubway, people do use them as a general conveyance with service peaks in the morning and evening-- the largest traffic coming from and going to South Station, so no, precious Eastie isn't being invaded by "yuppies".
False. It shows that
By baustin
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:25pm
False. It shows that bikeshares are for yuppies AND guppies! (get it!? because it's in the water?!)
It doesn't need a dock when
By baustin
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:53pm
It doesn't need a dock when it's its own anchor! That's a little boat-bike humor for you.
The bikes are terrorizing the suburbanites, too
By sco
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:15pm
Belmont PD had to issue a statement telling residents not to call 911 to report the bikes:
https://twitter.com/BelmontPD/status/1017068624408...
Awww
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:22pm
I'm sure the poor oil executives and power plant investors are just horrified by them! After all, it isn't enough to use the town power and light company to completely prevent solar panels in the town's boundaries!
They already did enough for the environment when they were finally forced to agree to clean up all the shit they were dumping into Alewife Brook!
Belmont
By pmall
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:24pm
Solar panels are not prohibited in Belmont.
It's not unmitigated evil
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:25pm
The town power and light company is municipally owned and has historically delivered a better rate structure in Belmont than national grid / keyspan / NStar / whatever has offered to the surrounding municipalities.
This is the first I've heard of the power company blocking solar in Belmont. Can you give me some more info?
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Squelching by "adjusting" the rate structure
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:36pm
Friend of the Koch Brothers took over the system and went right for their favored "rate plan" bullshit to screw existing users and squelch future ones:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2...
Yeah, that was bullshit
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 2:42pm
I was pretty astounded that they were able to propose that with a straight face; my understanding was that the ridiculous Phase 3 proposal got duly shot down, did it not?
As for buying at wholesale (the "phase 2 proposal", that seems perfectly reasonable. It's unsustainable for the town to be required to buy power I generate at the same price the utility sells it to my neighbors; under that scheme how would they pay for their capital plant or operations.
which is a proposal that
By anon
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 1:56pm
which is a proposal that never went anywhere. Belmont's solar metering policy is still very favorable.
Dockless?
By MrZip
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:18pm
I'll say, in fact they're pier-less!
Ah, that was way better than
By baustin
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:47pm
Ah, that was way better than mine. Tip of the hat, sir.
Excellent parking spot
By Grant Young
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 1:29pm
Now the fishes have bicycles.
Thanks Trump!
Slime Lime
By The Ghost of Jo...
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:12pm
Now it's really Slime Lime.
Meanwhile, in Quincy ...
By adamg
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:44pm
Two of Quincy's dockless bikes pulled from bay.
Nice one, only a matter of
By tofu
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 4:03pm
Nice one, only a matter of time.
[quote]“Within a short period of time, it was scanned and ridden away by a local youth,” the post said.[/quote]
Only to be
eaten by a hawkdumped in another body of water moments later"He bikes with the fishes."
By u-hub-fan
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 4:35pm
(n/t)
For the common good
By Lunchbox
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 4:56pm
Every bike off the road is a victory for pedestrians everywhere.
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SWIMMERS?
By UHub-fan
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 5:55pm
(n/t)
Lets double down on that
By spin_o_rama
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 6:15pm
No automobiles on the road, only street cars and pedestrians!
Bingo!
By anon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 6:41pm
Bingo!
Oh, I'm Sure There's A Few Cars In The Harbor Too
By Oscar Worthy
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 6:44pm
(plus some guys who knew a little too much.)
You mean
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 7:33pm
Every CAR off the road.
Every year in this area, drivers of cars KILL several pedestrians. Meanwhile, you have to look through years and years of data to find any equivalent number of pedestrian deaths from bikes.
Let's stick with facts when planning cities and making statements like yours, toots.
Nope
By Lunchbox
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 9:33pm
You mean every BIKE off the road.
Sure, some motorists will kill ya, but that's rare. Most motorists are law-abiding, and some are even courteous.
Whereas all cyclists are self-entitled and self-centered, with no regard for laws or other people. Never been hit by a car; have been hit by a bike.
LOL
By frobot
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 8:21am
n/t
So that's the cause of the damage
By lbb
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 11:08am
I got bit by a dog once. I think I'll kill them all.
Statistics, Please
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 1:43pm
If you had been hit by a car, you probably wouldn't be here.
Please cite statistics demonstrating the harms that you claim exist, or stfu.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/16/mass-...
Also, citations are also needed for your assumptions that "drivers follow laws but cyclists don't", as every actual citation and study that I've seen acknowledges that they offend at equal rates (but one group kills a lot more people).
https://www.outsideonline.com/2273001/cyclists-com...
Get cracking!
Can I just say two things here?
By UHub-fan
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 10:42pm
1) The person you responded to may or may not be an idiot, but they have certainly offered an idiotic comment.
2) Today I was on foot in the Back Bay. At the corner of Commonwealth, I waited for the pedestrian light to go on so I could cross Mass. Ave. After the pedestrian light came on and I was attempting to cross, no fewer than three cyclists ran through the red light across my path at full speed. Then, once I had managed to make it across the street, I was nearly clobbered by a delivery cyclist riding on the sidewalk.
Four close calls in less than 30 seconds.
Let's stop pretending that just because cars cause more damage than bicycles that means cyclists are saints. Boston streets are a three-way war of carelessness and cluelessness, and I'm sick of people picking teams.
Concept
By anon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 5:01pm
I'm not convinced the entire concept of these bikes is a workable one. Or a desirable one, for that matter. Using one and then leaving it strewn just anywhere. It seems rather random.
[venkman] Everything was fine...
By A Gnon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 6:01pm
...until the sidewalk was clogged by dockless here.
[mayor] Is this true?
[venkman] Yes, sir, it’s true. This bike has no dock.
—
Unrelatedly, I now find myself imagining tiny divers exploring limebikewrecks.
Hubways get tossed in, too
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 7:35pm
My husband spotted one during a super low tide in the Gillette end of the channel - the amount of crustacean encrustation indicated that it had been missing for some time.
Why would someone go that far
By anon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 9:51pm
Why would someone go that far to be evil? To be so angry at nothing and throw something that is not yours into the water is sick.
Every time I scroll past this
By anon
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 9:37am
Every time I scroll past this photo it gives me a chuckle! On a side note, the colors and the soft focus make for an oddly beautiful photo.
I don't understand
By poster
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 11:00am
why cities who have been innundated overnight by these various dockless vehicles don't drive around impounding them, and then tell the company they have to pay all the fees to get them out.
So the city makes money off the impound fees or the sale of the vehicles at police auction, but they get the stupid dockless vehicles out of the way.
Inundated?
By Michael Fahey
Fri, 07/13/2018 - 7:48pm
Give me a break. Bicycles parked on sidewalks, big deal.
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