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Old 30-07-2010, 17:06   #25
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Re: Will Londoners get on their bike?

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Originally Posted by punky View Post
When someone says "£800 or £900" it indicates that he doesn't know how much it costs. It has a clear figure. Everything has to be costed for in contract. I suspect its because he wants to the hide the fact that the scheme will pull in some nice revenue at its users' expense when the bikes are stolen.
It would be hard to steal. The pricing (first 30 mins included with membership) and the prohibitive cost of it if you were to use it more than a few hours encourages you to use it to get from point a to b, then relinquish it. People won't be attaching it to a fence while they go into a cinema/shop/park.

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Until you get to to your zone docking station and there are no bikes there. Or when you get to your work all the docking stations are full.

Personally I wouldn't rely on anyhting as important as getting to work on time on the bike scheme.
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Then I'll walk. The idea of the station being full is worrying but I'll check how busy the ones outside my work typically are.

---------- Post added at 16:06 ---------- Previous post was at 16:05 ----------

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Originally Posted by punky View Post
Until you get to to your zone docking station and there are no bikes there. Or when you get to your work all the docking stations are full.

Personally I wouldn't rely on anyhting as important as getting to work on time on the bike scheme.
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Then I'll walk. The idea of the station being full is worrying but I'll check how busy the ones outside my work typically are.
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