Hydra is fairly unique in that bikes, not just motorized vehicles, are prohibited on the island.

Interesting that they're being described as "abandoned" there. I thought they might be getting sold to locals who have plausible deniability that they're using them for construction work.

Why abandon a working vehicle? Surely the construction projects on Hydra aren't exclusively worked by end-of-life vehicles. And it's only about 3km from mainland Greece so it can't be prohibitively expensive to ship them back (even if they are end of life, they should have much more scrappage value than the shipping cost).

> “A paradise for walkers and nature lovers.” That’s how the Municipality describes Hydra on its website, promoting the island’s uniqueness, where the movement of all wheeled vehicles is prohibited by law. However, laws are made to be broken—especially when there is no one responsible or interested in enforcing them. Thus, this otherwise beautiful island, rich in archaeological and natural treasures and boasting unique architecture, has become filled with cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and of course, scooters, which are trendier than walking.

Sounds like the usual "humans want pretended virtues, and laws are for the little people" deal to me.

One of my favorite things when I was here was seeing an Amazon Prime logo on the saddlebag of a donkey. That struck me as a very weird collision of old and new worlds

Push them into the water?

I grew up on an island. If you see something that looks insane it's almost always an economic distortion as a result of the high cost of getting stuff in and our or an economic distortion as a result of government doing something absurd to protect the big local industry (tourism, retirement, etc).

For the longest time they wouldn't let a scrap metal place exist. Then eventually someone just started running one accessory to another business via a loophole and all the metal trash that adorned the ditches in secluded areas just vanished and didn't get replaced.