Fair enough.

It's a shame that it didn't work out, but the council is right with this one:

“We will reopen the tender if we have a company that comes back and meets the bare minimum standards, which is not a corporate monolith expecting an underfunded council to bankroll them.”

And I think Lime's response is a bit disingenuous:

“Those against it do relate a lot to user behaviour, but we don’t ban cars for user behaviour,”

Perhaps we should ban cars for user behaviour... but that of course is beside the point. Ebikes are not being banned or removed; only Lime's service is being discontinued. So this decision is nothing like 'banning cars'. A much closer analogy would be telling GoGet to end their car sharing operation due to users dumping those cars the middle of random roads or footpaths. (GoGet users don't do that, obviously, and so their service can continue.)

Dried up, out of season, over priced, corporate limes.

Flogs.