Riders who vandalise new Uber e-bikes to face ban

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Rideshare giant Uber will ban users from its Uber and Uber Eats apps if they are found guilty of vandalising the company's new e-bikes. 9News

"Look after them because this is a trial for us, it's a trial for the cities and it's a trial for Good Cycles. We all want to make this work.

"If we find people are misusing the bikes we'll remove their access to the app. Not just Jump, but Uber Eats and Uber as well.""This is not a new opportunity for people to come up with inventive ways of how to misuse our ride-share bikes," Ms Capp said. Every Jump bike is digitally tracked and they will be located by GPS by the team at Good Cycles Melbourne, who are contracted to replace the bike batteries which deplete after "10 trips."Jump has agreed to find and fix any displaced bikes within two hours of being notified.

Jump operates in 30 cities worldwide and has faced vandalism issues in parts of North America and Europe.

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