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I see far more Lime bikes sitting in the middle of the pavement than I do parked appropriately. Lime clearly has no incentive to punish bad parkers as all it does is lose them business for zero benefit.
The way to make the cost-benefit analysis work - and therefore to make Lime enforce against bad parkers - is for Lime to face a cost when their riders park badly. Local councils should just drive a van round and impound any Lime bikes thrown in the middle of the pavement and charge Lime £200 a pop to recover them - that would quickly get them to stop renting bikes out to hooligans.
Judging by what the app told me, I suspect they only punish bad parkers if they get fined. So yeah, they should definitely enforce it more, because if it hits people in the pocket, they'll quickly fix their behaviour. Imagine if you can save 25% by just not being a prick.