Timothée Chalamet fined £65 for Lime bike parking
Dylan goes electric… and gets fined! Timothée Chalamet slapped with “£65 parking fine” after riding Lime bike to London premiere of A Complete Unknown
“If Timmy says Lime bikes are in, Lime bikes are in,” Palace Cinemas wrote in response to the actor’s active travel-focused commute.However, in an interview with French talk show Quotidien on Wednesday, the Oscar nominee revealed that unbeknownst to him the red carpet at BFI Southbank was, in fact, an unauthorised zone for parking Lime bikes – leading, he claims, to a hefty £65 fine from the hire bike company.
« The idea is that I have no idea… there was a traffic jam and I actually wasn’t allowed to park there and I got a £65 fine and actually it’s horrible because it was an advert for them ! »In any case, BBC radio DJ Annie Mac also attended the premiere on Tuesday and posted about Chalamet’s Lime-scented arrival, writing on Instagram: “He arrived on a Lime bike and then had trouble parking it, as Lime bike hadn’t accounted for A listers wanting to leave their bikes on an actual red...
Nevertheless, it turns out Chalamet wasn’t the only one of his entourage who fell foul of Lime’s rules and regulations.Photographer Aidan Zamiri, who rode alongside the actor on his own Lime bike, posting videos of the ride across Westminster Bridge and along the South Bank on social media with the captions ‘Favourite mode of transport’ and ‘Showing up in style’, was also penalised.
First launched in London in 2018, the ubiquitous dockless electric rental bikes – which unlike Santander Bikes don’t require a docking station – have attracted criticism from those who claim they are constantly abandoned by users and left “strewn” across pavements., with some locals calling for the trial of the bike hire scheme to be paused, arguing that it is only a matter of time before “somebody gets killed”.
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