Bike hire Archives

Bike hire

£3.80/day for a round-town bike

Now a 7km journey takes half as long as by car or bus, and cyclist numbers have quintupled

Bank takes back £1.5m of £50m cash outlay

Expected for completion before the Commonwealth Games in 2014

Blackpool hire scheme up for consideration too after council cuts funding

Edinburgh bike hire scheme is go, go....er, stop

First impressions of how the actual TfL bike rides and the system works

Changes made after 18,000 bikes vandalised and 8,000 stolen in first two years

Low take-up rate and too few bikes raise questions over Hourbike's viability

Organiser runs out of cards after vastly underestimating demand