Climate Change Protestors Use Boris Bikes As Billboards
A group of protestors, who are calling on the Japanese to reverse their decision to oppose an extension to the Koyto treaty, have turned the Cycle Hire bikes into mobile billboards.
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Cycle Hire: Casual Use Launches Today
From this morning, Boris bikes were made available to non-members. We went to try the ‘casual use’ system out, but things didn’t go according to plan…
Cycle Hire Rolled Out To Casual Users In December
Boris bikes will be made available to the general public from December 3rd, it has been announced. From that date, anyone in possession of a credit or debit card will be able to rent one.
Cycle Hire: 13 Emergencies In The First Two Months
A Freedom of Information request by the Evening Standard has revealed that, in the first two months after they were introduced, Cycle Hire bikes were involved in 13 accidents that required the emergency services to be called.
Boris Bikes Head East
The Whitechapel docking station. Photo / suburbanslice After teasing the idea in the summer, Boris Johnson has stated that the Cycle Hire scheme will extend eastwards in time for the Olympics. The system’s current easternmost station is opposite Whitechapel station, but the Mayor has confirmed …
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Canary Wharf station. Photo / Lee McEwan Work has begun on the Olympic Park Orbit tower. London Underground says that Jubilee line upgrades will be complete in the spring… … but the Northern line upgrade isn’t likely to finish before 2014, a year later than …
Huge New Cycle Hire Station For Waterloo
Bikes are piled up after the afternoon rush hour As we reported in August, the Boris bike docking station at Concert Hall Approach, near Waterloo, is one of most popular on the system, and scenes like the one above are common in the evening, after …
What Does The CSR Mean For London?
Image by violinconcertono3 Boris Johnson this afternoon scheduled a press conference to discuss what today’s Comprehensive Spending Review means for London. Here are some of the highlights: – As expected, Crossrail will be built in full, including the Abbey Wood extension. The main section will …
Charity Calls For Helmets On Boris Bikes
Photo / suburbanslice Road safety charity Brake has called for helmets to be included in the Cycle Hire scheme, describing it as “imperative” that users wear them. They don’t, however, say how helmets would be factored in. And that’s the problem. The scheme as it …
London Poetry: Two Poems By Gary From Leeds
Poems about our capital Unsurprisingly born and raised in Leeds, Gary From Leeds is currently holed up in London. He’s a trained journalist and failed stand-up comedian. He’s been published in various under-read magazines and pamphlets, but prefers to say his stuff out loud than …
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Colourful cycles by msmornington Londoners are eating out less, according to Zagat. A nine-year old girl died on Saturday after falling 15 floors from a Bow tower block. Tabloid pun-penners to earn their keep as George Michael is jailed for eight weeks. Architectural historian climbs …
