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punky · 30-07-2010, 12:45

It wouldn't incentivise me, and its nothing to do with riding a bike in London.

Its just the way the scheme is devised. You have to spend £45 a year to be a member before you're allowed near a bike. Then if you have it for more than 30 minutes, you are billed for it. Then if you turn up at your destination and its full you have to frantically get on your phone find the next nearest docking station, furiously pedal there, hope there is room and then run back to where you actually wanted to go. And then if the bike is nicked, you have to cough up £300 cash (which your contents insurance probably won't cover) which is at least 10 times the value of the bike.

I don't think there's a single part of the scheme that does make sense.

If it was free to register and maybe free for the first hour I might use it now and again for a laugh but it isn't the easiest, cheapest or safeest way to get about. And if I use it to dodge a crowded tube then everyone else will ahve the same idea and couldn't get bike for love nor money. If you are serious about what you are doing at the time (say trying to get to work) then you just wouldn't be able to rely on the scheme. And if you want it as a general convenience, then its stupidly expensive.

30-07-2010, 12:45	#3
punky Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 44 Posts: 14,750	Re: Will Londoners get on their bike? It wouldn't incentivise me, and its nothing to do with riding a bike in London. Its just the way the scheme is devised. You have to spend £45 a year to be a member before you're allowed near a bike. Then if you have it for more than 30 minutes, you are billed for it. Then if you turn up at your destination and its full you have to frantically get on your phone find the next nearest docking station, furiously pedal there, hope there is room and then run back to where you actually wanted to go. And then if the bike is nicked, you have to cough up £300 cash (which your contents insurance probably won't cover) which is at least 10 times the value of the bike. I don't think there's a single part of the scheme that does make sense. If it was free to register and maybe free for the first hour I might use it now and again for a laugh but it isn't the easiest, cheapest or safeest way to get about. And if I use it to dodge a crowded tube then everyone else will ahve the same idea and couldn't get bike for love nor money. If you are serious about what you are doing at the time (say trying to get to work) then you just wouldn't be able to rely on the scheme. And if you want it as a general convenience, then its stupidly expensive.