Front page, bikes not being used as much, due to weather and prices going up. Cheaper to buy a secondhand bike than hire.
Barbara Stevens ● 957d8 Comments
Are you using ACTIVE TRAVEL PHILIPPA, or just telling everybody else what to do. The most people seen on these bikes are young people. When did you last get on a bike.
Barbara Stevens ● 956d
So are you making suggestions to TfL? The whole point is to get more people using active travel.There is also the Barnes Bicycle Sale on the front page:http://www.putneysw15.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evbarnesbikesale2309.htm
Philippa Bond ● 957d
It makes sense to move subsidies to the greenest forms of transport.The other issue with the bikes is that docking stations are not near people's home and of course mainly central London.Shocking lack of vision from the Mayor!The Californian sister scheme went dockless years ago.
Ed Robinson ● 957d
You used to be able to hire a bike for as many thirty minute periods as you liked for £2/day. The mayor changed this to £1.65/trip so I have stopped using them.IMHO they should be included in the Oyster cap - once you've hit £8.10 (zone 1 and 2) your rides are free. It's called integrated transport :).
Alastair Brown ● 957d
'Hackers' seem mainly to be kids riding them around just for the fun of it.I don't think Lime or the other hire bikes are the reason for the Santander decline as they were around the previous year. Also I don't think you can blame the weather which hasn't been great but not enough to account for the big fall.To me the reason is the price rises which have just made hiring the bikes too expensive. Even without people having to tighten their belts, the rate of usage would have fallen. The subsidy for the service needs to be increased to the extent that it is cheaper than taking public transport.
Peter Higgins ● 957d
"Doesn't seem to have much effect on the hackers, though."Nor on the forces of law and order. Nor on Lime?
David Ainsworth ● 957d
Apparently you can tell if they've been hacked (for free rides) because they then make a loud ticking sound when they're being ridden. Doesn't seem to have much effect on the hackers, though.
Richard Carter ● 957d
But Lime bikes seem to be everywhere. Mind you, I suspect that some of them are "free" rides.