Not even Good Friday was quiet

Date: 3 April 2026

Good Friday is supposed to feel different. Many stores are closed. People are away. Roads are quieter. It should have been one of the few days when this neighbourhood could finally breathe a little.

That is not what happened. By 10:30 there had already been around 30 passes by Checkers Sixty60 bikes using the street as a shortcut again.

Even public holidays are no relief

As the service grows and more people use this unnecessary convenience model, the frequency of deliveries keeps rising. With it comes the noise pollution, the stress, and the anxiety.

It is absurd that even on public holidays, when most people hope to relax and unwind, residents still appear to be expected to endure around twelve hours of noise from these bikes.

What this says

The people responsible do not appear to care in any meaningful way about the impact on the residents living on these streets. If they were living with this themselves, it is hard to believe they would consider it acceptable.

At least from where I stand, empathy seems completely absent from the way this problem continues to be handled. What comes through instead is a willingness to keep chasing profit while residents carry the cost.

The pattern is getting harder to excuse

Not even a public holiday is enough to interrupt it. The same shortcut use continues. The same loud bikes continue. The same disruption continues.

That is what makes it so infuriating. This is no longer an occasional nuisance. It is a sustained decision to let residential streets absorb the harm created by an utterly unnecessary convenience service.