London Cycle Hire

Great as it seems to blame operators the people ending journeys on the towpaths and along the canal are surely boaters themselves? Also is the "someone" who will chuck bikes in the water also boaters? It's something I've never really understood about the canal trust that when it suits them cyclists are evil but when you look at canal boats most if not all have a couple of bikes on them.

They seem to be more upset that they can't charge them for the recovery of bikes(when it suits them to recover them). Surely if they pull a bike from the canal then dump it out on any road and shoot them a message they would collect it. It's also really open to abuse if they are taking "abandoned" bikes from the tow path and collecting them for a fee, the moment you pay people to recover dockless bikes they can easily find 100s a day and claim they pulled them all from canals.