Ealing Council has approved new powers to seize e-bikes without a court order when they pose a danger to pedestrians or cause obstructions.<\/p>\n
At a full council meeting on 13 October, councillors voted to delegate additional statutory powers to senior officers as part of the council’s effort to strengthen its e-bike enforcement policy.<\/p>\n
The proposed changes also require e-bike rental companies to reimburse the council for the cost of recovery. Seized e-bikes will be transported and stored in a secure council-owned garage on a housing estate.<\/p>\n
Voi argued it had performed well in the borough and there were no legal grounds to exclude it.<\/p>\n
Ealing Council said this decision would “protect the council from obstructive incursions by an e-bike operator without an agreement in place”.<\/p>\n
The council report stated: “Immediate removal under section 149(2) is limited to bikes that present a danger requiring removal without delay; other nuisance cases require notice and, if necessary, a court order.”<\/p>\n
There are currently 1,800 dockless e-bikes in Ealing, operated by Forest and Lime under contracts with the council set out in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).<\/p>\n
However, Voi continues to operate in the borough despite not being awarded a new contract by Ealing Council following its dockless e-bike trial earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Councillor Dominic Moffitt said Ealing Council had formally requested that Voi cease operations and withdraw from Ealing, but Voi has refused to leave.<\/p>\n
Councillor Moffitt has negotiated an updated MoU with operators that require them to clear reported obstructive bikes within two hours rather than four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ealing Council has approved new powers to seize e-bikes without a court order when they pose a danger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-635151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}