This month’s construction industry gossip: Planers, trains and… E-bikes

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2026-04-17T06:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

Lime disease

I’m all for active travel, and I’ll say this: some of my best friends are cyclists. But the popularity of rental e-bikes comes with its downsides, according to one colleague after a recent encounter in the capital. Arriving just after rush hour, she was attempting to lock up her own low-tech pedal bike right by the City’s Heron Tower, only to find the pavement completely blocked with hundreds of Lime bikes. Equally non-plussed by the newly formed cycle depot were two construction workers trying to figure out how they could get on with cabling works in the street. Possibly not up there with urgent global problems that need genius solutions but could someone please work out a way to make e-bikes less of a nuisance?

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