Photo / suburbanslice TfL has confessed to what anecdotal evidence has long pointed to: namely, that thousands of people have been wrongly overcharged whilst riding Cycle Hire bikes. The exact figure remains a mystery: a spokesperson said that “a couple of thousand” of the 40,000 …
Photo / suburbanslice It’s barely a week old, but Boris Johnson is already planning to pump millions more pounds into the cycle hire network and vastly expand the number of bikes and docking stations, reports the Standard. Despite a handful of teething troubles, the system’s …
The first thing to note is: the cycle hire scheme works. We rocked up to a station in Shoreditch at a little after 6am this morning, inserted the key into the docking station, waited for the green light on the machine to flash, and seconds …
Ambling through Spitalfields of an evening, we just spotted some guys installing the Cycle Hire bikes at a station on Commercial Street. According to the chap we spoke to, they were installing five bikes in this 16-berth station, though he wasn’t sure if that pattern …
Screenshot from London Cycle App Just one day now before the cycle hire scheme launches, and already the question is being asked: what’s the best mobile app to use? A month ago, TfL urged app developers to get on the case and, and they’ve responded …
After a short delay caused by the well-known payment problems that affected early registrants for Barclays Cycle Hire, a welcome pack and membership access key dropped through our letterbox on Tuesday. Click through the pics above to see what’s included. The bikes will be available …
The Guardian’s design critic Justin McGuirk is incensed by the amount of corporate branding that Barclays have been allowed in the Cycle Hire and Cycle Superhighway schemes. In describing it as “surely the largest piece of branding in existence”, McGuirk is particularly vexed by the …
Photo // stuart.noble The Barclays Cycle Hire scheme is now open for registration for those who wish to become a member. To join, you need to be 18 and have a UK credit or debit card billing address. Fill in the form on the TfL …
As Barclays Cycle Hire creeps ever closer, TFL are urging independent app developers to get cracking on helpful apps for the scheme to “complement the wealth of information that TfL is already generating to keep users up to speed about the scheme”. Clearly they noticed …
TfL artist’s impression Barclays is shelling out £25m to sponsor London’s cycle hire scheme – sorry, Barclays Cycle Hire – and the cycle superhighways – sorry, Barclays Cycle Superhighways – for five years. That’s a nice, and much needed, sum for TfL to recoup on …
by secretlondon123 London’s cycle hire scheme is due to get rolling this summer. We know about the blue bike’s ears and how your ride will be priced. We even had an inkling of where we’d be able to pick up our Borocycle. Now someone’s taken …
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