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Lime Bike is a shared bike company based in San Mateo, California. The company operates a dockless, bike-sharing system that allows people to rent a bike for 1 hour. You can use a mobile app to unlock the bikes and after each hour of use, you will be charged a dollar. After your ride, you use the app to lock your bike by pressing the red button and pushing down. Lime bike was started in January of 2017. Overtime, they expanded their business to many other locations including Dallas, Texas. Since Lime Bikes have been in Dallas, they have been used quite a bit. Unfortunately, since there is no incentive to leave the bikes in a particular location, people tend to leave their bikes anywhere and everywhere. This has caused quite a few problems. Dallas has complained to some of these bike sharing companies (including Lime Bike), and has asked them to find a way to get these bikes off the sidewalks and streets. Having the bikes scattered in so many places prevents pedestrians from walking without taking a detour. It is also a major safety hazard. Pedestrians could easily trip over the bikes. Even though Dallas has made complaints, and people have been hurt, Lime Bike continues to expand the business and establish more bikes. Lime Bike has recently come out with new electric bikes. This will most likely add to the mess all over the city, and all over the world. Although we can appreciate the environmentally-friendly movement of people using bikes, it’s only fair to ask that Lime Bike cleans up its mess.