One of the alternative travel options TfL laid on during last week’s tube strike was guided cycle rides – specific routes leaving at set times for novice riders to be accompanied by experienced marshalls. Unfortunately, the take-up for each ride was in single figures, with …
Photo / suburbanslice It’s not surprising that Tuesday’s Tube strike was also the busiest day for the Cycle Hire scheme since it launched. Unfortunately, the system stretched users’ patience as much as their calf muscles, and there were reports of people struggling to find available …
Image by becksldrt from the Londonist Flickr pool Last night came the annoying but somewhat inevitable news that talks between London Underground and the RMT / TSSA have broken down, so now TfL have announced how they hope to mitigate the effects of next week’s …
A bombastic press release from TfL, boasting of the popularity of the Cycle Hire scheme (350,000 journeys in the inaugural month, more than 70,000 members), is sullied by the announcement mid-way through that the bikes won’t be available to casual users and tourists until the …
Page eight of yesterday’s Evening Standard Things must be getting tight at the Evening Standard: yesterday they pinched a photograph taken by this writer that had first been published on Londonist, and put it on their website and in the print edition, without credit or …
Green space around the Athletes’ Village Plans for green space and parkland around Olympic Park homes have been released Giant boccia court in Trafalgar Square to mark two years until the Paralympics Alcohol, barbecues, musical instruments, gazebos: just some of the items banned from the …
Bikes are piled up after the afternoon rush hour Cycle Hire bikes piled up near Royal Festival Hall, as far as the eye can see. Over 100 of them. At first blush it looks like some pesky delinquents have been preparing them for sale to …
Let’s use a pic of the Paris version, for the sake of variety. The new cycle hire scheme has prompted the greatest burst of creativity since God stroked his beard and decided to ‘let be’ that whole ‘light’ business. Not a day goes by without …
Interesting thread over on the Boris Bike forums. Forum member ‘borisbiker’ has issued a series of challenges for anyone seeking an extra kick from the cumbersome velocipedes. Specifically: – How many docking stations can you visit in one day? – How fast can you cycle? …
Image courtesy of prkn under a creative commons licence One-little commented side-effect of London’s cycle hire scheme has been the insight it’s given us into what TfL thinks different bits of London are actually called. Going by the names on the cycle docking stations, the …
Key: Blue (empty) – Red (full). See the map for full breakdown Oliver O’Brien, Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has used TfL’s open-source data on cycle hire usage to create this wonderful interactive visualisation of how the bikes are being used. …
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