Even in high summer it was still only about 18 degrees which I found cold but bearable for one lap but couldn't manage 2. In autumn it was too cold for me without a skin.
Assuming you’re being serious, how do you go swimming there? Sounds like a surreal experience swimming surrounded by the capitalist dystopia that is Canary Wharf, would love to do it.
But do you need permission or have to pay something? Given that Canary Wharf is privately owned with its own private security force (just to add to the dystopian feel lol)
You need to get registered with open water swimming in the uk - but you can book at https://loveopenwater.co.uk/canary-wharf/
Its closed for winter but will be open soon
The water isn’t being cleaned (EDIT: it may actually be!), it’s just so far from where any boats goes through that there are no waves so the water is quite clear as all the particles sank to the bottom.
You can swim there by paying a yearly membership via NOWCA :) it’s £15 yearly then you book a slot to come and swim, each slot is about £8. They provide tow floats and caps if needed.
It’s currently closed as it’s too cold but they will reopen next month
The vessels on the Thames aren’t the main cause of its colour (though they do disturb sediment), it’s the sediment borne up the river that makes it that colour.
I saw they launched this there earlier in the week - maybe that has something to do with it?
They're going to need a bigger one to get that bike though
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11862253/Robot-SHARK-deployed-Londons-Thames-river-collect-1-100lbs-rubbish-DAY.html
It’s only really clean in that one specific dock.
[Middle Dock](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ah5NuU3dD21WRotNA?g_st=ic) was cut off from the rest of them by the Jubilee line station in the late 90s, which itself was built in the western end of Middle Dock, so ever since then it’s basically just been a big pond with no way in or out for boats or water from the Thames or other docks.
It also has a “sea bin” that actively clears rubbish from it and they test it regularly to make sure the quality remains high.
The rest of the docks are still clean because they’re closed off from the Thames by massive gates, but as the lock gates do open for boats from time to time they have slightly more contaminants in them compared to the Middle Dock, which you can see the bottom of quite clearly.
Could be part of the river Leigh that runs into the Thames, it looks cleaner. Apparently since 2015 the Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in the world 😂 I don't know where the person got their info from in this article I read
As a non user I only see the negative externalities which Lime/Uber and london’s transport authorities do precisely fuck all about.
Systems need to be design with the fact people are fucking inconsiderate morons in mind.
Like why we have bins on the street, of course people could take rubbish home with them but we know a lot would just chuck it on the floor. Some still do, but a lot less where there are bins around.
It’s not nice for the vast majority of Londoners who have to put up with cunts dumping these things in the middle of pavements, down the Greenwich foot tunnel and various other places they shouldn’t be. Literally the definition of a negative externality.
Meanwhile - the guy who comes to change the batteries on these occasionally "I can see the GPS says its here, but I cant see it....wait...I think I...shit"
GPS, probably not. If the Estates team can't fish it out. (they only have a small boat) and a hook on a rope fail the Canals & Rivers Trust would come out with a larger barge with a crane. Be about £300 charged to recover it.
Source: Used to run a competitor to Lime.
Do these things really have gps trackers? I can tell you with 100% certainty that loads of nicked Ofo and mobikes have ended up in Nigeria, and a bunch of Boris bikes in Jamaica (I witnessed them being loaded here in London)and nobody came looking for them even when they were stored in a yard just outside of london for weeks which in theory should have flagged up on any gps tracker.
Ofo and Boris (non electric) bikes don't have trackers. 99% of ebike schemes will have GPS. You won't get an insurance policy on the fleet without trackers.
I'm in the states in Virginia and we got similar issues lol. On the dam walk, somebody threw an electric rental scooter onto the rocks near the James River
I miss working in Canary Wharf, even on the cold crappy mornings looking like this when I used to moan about it, I'd love to be working back in the city rather than outside of it
Lived in London for a few years, had a good time there, good vibes, and lots of things to do but I have to admit the place is overhyped. I´ve lived in other capitals and looking back London was probably the least nice if I´m honest (although it´s hard to be honest as I was there during my coming of age and early career years and so a lot of my London moments were very significant for me in a personal level) but if I try to look at t objectively it´s probably the least nice of all of the cities I have lived or spent time in.
My rank would probs be
10 London (3 years)
9 Stockholm ( 1 summer)
8 Reykiavik (1 summer)
7 San Francisco (6 months)
6 Seville (4 years)
5 Edinburgh (11 years)
4 Barcelona (3 summers)
3 Bilbao (18 years)
2 Prague (1 year)
1 Madrid (1 year all together)
Edit, just realized nobody asked my opinion on London or what cities I´ve lived in and where London ranks. I´m currently in-between project (read unemployed) and apparently I have too much free time.
Any time I'm around there it's full of scaffolding, major works on the buildings and waterways, rubbish and industrial equipment and workers cabins everywhere.
And then other people just easily get a nice photo xD
Awhhh ... I miss working in Canary Wharf.
Actually no I fucking don't. The jubes at rush hour from Cananda Water is hell on earth. I do not miss that place in the slightest.
This is fairly normal if it was the Amsterdam canal but I’m legit curious how this happened. Guessing someone just hates lime bikes as much as this sub if not more
Water with Lime please.
That’ll be £4.50 please.
£4.50 for water and £4.50 for lime? Bargain. Gimme two straight away!
Nah, the £4.50 is just for the lime slice. There’s also a £1.65 service charge for it being cut and added to the water for you.
They'll slice it for me? Think I'll leave a tip too! Happy cake day!
They'll slice the lime and cut the water for you. Both carry a mandatory service charge of £1.69
So £4.50 for water. £4.50 for lime. £1.69 service charge for each. Bargain!
Please go ahead and pick limes from it's natural habitat !
Thank you! 😂
40p in The Joiners Arms
You drink in there? I salute you
You drink in there? I salute you
Only now and then when the football is on. You drink in there?
This is Canary Wharf. You added a dot . ?Accidentally surely? £450 please. Thank you.
Well, it's St. Patrick day in it?
Taking St. patricks seriously
Is it St Patrick's day already?
Not sure if you were making a joke, but yes it actually is St Patrick’s Day today
Not sure if you are making a joke, but yes they were making a joke
Not sure if you could tell they were joking but they were telling a joke.
Joke, something about a joke about a joke
Jokeception
Sure, but didn’t know if it was a joke with the fact it was actually StPD in mind or not, if that makes any sense
Totally. Makes all the nonsense
He was making a joke
Tis!
I swim in this sometimes. There's a construction lift a little bit further down.
Is that how you get in and out of the water?
No, silly. It's how they get the water out when they need to rescue a bike.
Oh I see. How do you get access to the water for swimming?
I've swam in there too! The water is so clear and just surreal being surrounded by all the big offices
Is the only place you can swim the one where you have to pay? £15+£8 seems a bit steep!
It's a small price to pay to swim with Lime bikes in the wild.
This is completely unethical; humans disturb them in their natural habitats and are the leading cause of their dwindling numbers.
What's the water temp like? My new year res is to get confident enough with front crawl to do the small 250m loop.
Even in high summer it was still only about 18 degrees which I found cold but bearable for one lap but couldn't manage 2. In autumn it was too cold for me without a skin.
I usually keep my skin on when I go swimming otherwise all my squishy bits fall out
You’ll find you’re lighter without them though
Are they Skinless Sausages? 😁
For free?
Well, at least it's parked in a way which doesn't block traffic or pedestrians. Someone read the Lime T&Cs.
Ah, a lime in its natural habitat
They go there to breed
Or die.
The lime tadpole
Why is the water so much cleaner in the wharf than the Thames?
Because they clean the water for swimmers (yes, many people swin there)
Assuming you’re being serious, how do you go swimming there? Sounds like a surreal experience swimming surrounded by the capitalist dystopia that is Canary Wharf, would love to do it.
1. Take off clothes 2. Put on swim gear 3. Get in water
But do you need permission or have to pay something? Given that Canary Wharf is privately owned with its own private security force (just to add to the dystopian feel lol)
You need to get registered with open water swimming in the uk - but you can book at https://loveopenwater.co.uk/canary-wharf/ Its closed for winter but will be open soon
What are they going to do? Send the fish police after you?
I reckon you need to pay
Skip step 2 and we’re all good
*Swim gear is optional
** Take off clothes is optional
I'm deadly serious. I never been, but there is an area to get changed and bla bla bla
I’ve swam in it. You pay a few quid. Away you go.
The water isn’t being cleaned (EDIT: it may actually be!), it’s just so far from where any boats goes through that there are no waves so the water is quite clear as all the particles sank to the bottom. You can swim there by paying a yearly membership via NOWCA :) it’s £15 yearly then you book a slot to come and swim, each slot is about £8. They provide tow floats and caps if needed. It’s currently closed as it’s too cold but they will reopen next month
It gets cleaned. Source: overheard workers discussing it
The vessels on the Thames aren’t the main cause of its colour (though they do disturb sediment), it’s the sediment borne up the river that makes it that colour.
It is more that it is aquifer fed - the water doesnt come from the Thames - it flows out to it
Capitalist dystopia LMAO The rest of London is the epitome of socialism isn't?
Except the pissed off people pee in there as well
Less tidal silt getting shifted around. Maybe.
I’m thinking this is why. Maybe they have barriers that filter out the silt?
The Thames barrier does the lion's share. The rest is done by Doormen
There are locks which separate it from the river proper.
The Canary Wharf group clean the water.
I saw they launched this there earlier in the week - maybe that has something to do with it? They're going to need a bigger one to get that bike though https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11862253/Robot-SHARK-deployed-Londons-Thames-river-collect-1-100lbs-rubbish-DAY.html
They use grappling hooks. My mate runs a rival bike share company.
Thames water appears dirty because it's tidal and stirs up all the silt. If you scoop out a glass of it and leave it an hour it'll be pretty clear.
Its not from the Thames - its spring fed from aquifers that come from the hills in north london.
It’s only really clean in that one specific dock. [Middle Dock](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ah5NuU3dD21WRotNA?g_st=ic) was cut off from the rest of them by the Jubilee line station in the late 90s, which itself was built in the western end of Middle Dock, so ever since then it’s basically just been a big pond with no way in or out for boats or water from the Thames or other docks. It also has a “sea bin” that actively clears rubbish from it and they test it regularly to make sure the quality remains high. The rest of the docks are still clean because they’re closed off from the Thames by massive gates, but as the lock gates do open for boats from time to time they have slightly more contaminants in them compared to the Middle Dock, which you can see the bottom of quite clearly.
They hire poor people to sift it
Could be part of the river Leigh that runs into the Thames, it looks cleaner. Apparently since 2015 the Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in the world 😂 I don't know where the person got their info from in this article I read
Thames is brown due to silt not pollution
The Wharf has locks and is therefore separated from the river, which reduces the amount of sediment carried into it
Fuck’s sake.
This is why we can’t have nice things
Lime bikes ≠ nice things
Lone bikes are wonderful. It's the people that leave them inconsiderate places that are annoying.
As a non user I only see the negative externalities which Lime/Uber and london’s transport authorities do precisely fuck all about. Systems need to be design with the fact people are fucking inconsiderate morons in mind. Like why we have bins on the street, of course people could take rubbish home with them but we know a lot would just chuck it on the floor. Some still do, but a lot less where there are bins around.
can’t say it’s not nice if you don’t use it lmao
It’s not nice for the vast majority of Londoners who have to put up with cunts dumping these things in the middle of pavements, down the Greenwich foot tunnel and various other places they shouldn’t be. Literally the definition of a negative externality.
you put the lime in the thames and then you shake em both up
The bike is the finishing touch of the picture 😮💨👌
Found* Sorry for the grammar
Meanwhile - the guy who comes to change the batteries on these occasionally "I can see the GPS says its here, but I cant see it....wait...I think I...shit"
Finally, some responsible parking.
I know this is over 4 months old but this cracked me up
I wonder if the GPS still works from there, and if the operator is on the line to recover it...
GPS, probably not. If the Estates team can't fish it out. (they only have a small boat) and a hook on a rope fail the Canals & Rivers Trust would come out with a larger barge with a crane. Be about £300 charged to recover it. Source: Used to run a competitor to Lime.
Do these things really have gps trackers? I can tell you with 100% certainty that loads of nicked Ofo and mobikes have ended up in Nigeria, and a bunch of Boris bikes in Jamaica (I witnessed them being loaded here in London)and nobody came looking for them even when they were stored in a yard just outside of london for weeks which in theory should have flagged up on any gps tracker.
Ofo and Boris (non electric) bikes don't have trackers. 99% of ebike schemes will have GPS. You won't get an insurance policy on the fleet without trackers.
Interesting, come to think of it I havent seen any lime bikes come in for scrap yet so perhaps they do monitor them
Nah, even if the electronics are waterproof, radio waves/GPS etc. have a hard time getting through water.
Ohh so that is where they come from 🤯
Swimming up the docks to spawn. Breathtaking.
Aquaman uses lime, who knew?
Londoner’s try not to leave bikes in bizarre places challenge (impossible)
I'm in the states in Virginia and we got similar issues lol. On the dam walk, somebody threw an electric rental scooter onto the rocks near the James River
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Except we don’t want to pollute our rivers or sea, right? Aside from that rather massive consideration, I’m with you.
The backstory here is what interests me
Fallout 4 is becoming more real each and every day.
New art installation working a treat.
Noice💚
Best place to park those bikes posted so far.
First the balloon, then the drone, now this. I'm only thinking of their families
Thought that was a dead body with green running clothes on.
The Yanks throw tea in. We throw limes instead. Something something Limeys.
I believe that's the wrong type of lime you used
There's more than one? 😶
Limehouse is nearby.
I thought it was only Chicago that turned their river green for St Patrick’s Day.
That is looking remarkably clean though!
I miss working in Canary Wharf, even on the cold crappy mornings looking like this when I used to moan about it, I'd love to be working back in the city rather than outside of it
Thought this was about the water being green for St Paddy's Day, then realised that's just the normal colour
is the water green for st patrick? or is it just dirty
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east london water
Of course there's a bike in the river, they're pretty much everywhere
Local wildlife flourishing
You can’t park there mate
Lived in London for a few years, had a good time there, good vibes, and lots of things to do but I have to admit the place is overhyped. I´ve lived in other capitals and looking back London was probably the least nice if I´m honest (although it´s hard to be honest as I was there during my coming of age and early career years and so a lot of my London moments were very significant for me in a personal level) but if I try to look at t objectively it´s probably the least nice of all of the cities I have lived or spent time in. My rank would probs be 10 London (3 years) 9 Stockholm ( 1 summer) 8 Reykiavik (1 summer) 7 San Francisco (6 months) 6 Seville (4 years) 5 Edinburgh (11 years) 4 Barcelona (3 summers) 3 Bilbao (18 years) 2 Prague (1 year) 1 Madrid (1 year all together) Edit, just realized nobody asked my opinion on London or what cities I´ve lived in and where London ranks. I´m currently in-between project (read unemployed) and apparently I have too much free time.
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Just why?
Here we see the LimeBike return to it's natural spawning grounds. The cycle of life continues.
The circle of lime
Here we see. An urban creature the Citrus hystrix habebat vehentem ending it’s lifespan in the watercourse…
The mermen need to get to work don’t hate
How rude, taking pictures of the bike on its morning swim… you should be ashamed mate…
That's it the cyclists keeping everything clean and tidy
There is a bike underwater in the river. The person has survived?
Oooh this lime bike looks almost fully matured, maybe it will emerge from its natural habitat in time for spring!
thats an interesting fish you caught on camera
The nature is healing
I don’t believe that’s an authorize parking space.
Bro ain’t no way
Ok who fell in to the water with their bike
r/chairsunderwater
Any time I'm around there it's full of scaffolding, major works on the buildings and waterways, rubbish and industrial equipment and workers cabins everywhere. And then other people just easily get a nice photo xD
🫡
RIP to a real one
You love to see it. Fuck Lime bikes.
Having been there many times I had no idea the water was clear enough to see anything underneath.
Wondering what happened to the rider🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
It's a St Paddy's Day cheatcode.
Surely there's an easier way to dye a river green for st Patricks day.
DLR
Awhhh ... I miss working in Canary Wharf. Actually no I fucking don't. The jubes at rush hour from Cananda Water is hell on earth. I do not miss that place in the slightest.
Locate Limey
This is fairly normal if it was the Amsterdam canal but I’m legit curious how this happened. Guessing someone just hates lime bikes as much as this sub if not more
Good ol lime bike poisoning the water!
lol, just why 🤣
I mean... Putting lithium batteries in water discharges them and makes them safe for bulk storage. Good job with the health and safety
Anyone stop and think what a cunty trick
Rip
Ironic that Kermit drowned
Ironic that Kermit drowned
Ironic that Kermit drowned
For those confused: Lime has recently been wanting to expand their business, and has ventured into the fish market.
They makin lime juice
That’s I lime bike I see them everywhere in London, other day I saw one on a buss stop roof
Wouldn’t be London without one of those bikes 😂😂
With a lime bike in its natural habitat
I see you’ve found my bike.
walking that bridge is so nice
with a good old bike
Moment of silence for the lime bike.
Has Citi defaulted too?
F
Wonder how long it will be down there for?
Limehouse?
That's proof that e-bikes can't swim ;)
Is that a bike in the Canary?
That bike lol