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2 accounts each with their own key? You’d have to pay 2 access fees though (unless you were really precise with your timings, always manage to dock at the same time every day and remember which key is active if your using 24 hr access)
Have you tried calling them? https://www.tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/barclays-cycle-hire/
Or making some noise on twitter?
I wonder What’s TFL’s official position is if a user has a problem but doesn’t have a mobile phone or internet access?
You can wear ( or not – next saturday apparently) whatever you like.
I tend to get cold hands, so gloves, and I like glasses to prevent wind/rain/dirt/road salt hitting my eyeballs.
Also have a thin windproof breathable flourencent yellow top that folds down smaller than an apple to fend off wind and showers.but it depends of weather and whether I’m going far.
You could report them to the Met’s roadsafe team:
https://secure.met.police.uk/roadsafelondon/They followed up when I reported a pickup that cut me up and swerved towards me.
To be fair I find most cabbies aren’t bad. Adison Lee however….
Wow, just received an unexpected following call about the Royal London/Sidney Street docks.
Apparently they had some problem getting electricity to the docks so had to disable them – but that engineers were on the case and they’d be available again soon.
(though far as I can tell they were working again the same morning)
ive been lucky and always found a space recently, but would have been tricky with a group of friends. shame bikes cant be daisy chained like shopping trolleys with the rfid reader on the bike. nipping around cannary wharf short distance has been trouble free at lunch time for me, is it just cos things run better when more bikes are in use?
Gently does it. been using the bikes a bit more recently and have noticed gears not as crisp as when the scheme was newer (cable stretch?) all gears change easier when not under a lot of pedal pressure, even hubs.
Maybe I’ll start carrying paper and pencil to leave a note attached to any faulty bike that needs red lighting.
Looks like a bargain, I hope you enjoy many miles together.
Jan 2011 Tower Hamlets council meeting Agenda PDF
Contains a map and list of proposed sites – including docking point numbers.
Details funding sources and what it will be spent on.
Looks like Tower hamlets coughed up £2,000,000 – mostly to get the scheme onto housing estates.
Replying to @7209′s post:
I looked but couldn’t see any overt reference to this, have asked tfl about it via the web contact form.
Looks exciting to me, the dock density looks better than central London. Hopefully will increase user base more, maybe even take emphasis off mainline station commuting.
I was wondering the other day how the scheme compares in terms of cost compared to other methods of public transport on a cost per head basis (including subsidisation from the govenment – not just the cost to the end user)
According to TFL cost per passenger km is
Bus 23p
Tube 28p
DLR 25p
Tram 22p
Overground 23p
avg 26p
National rail not included.
from :http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/travel-in-london-report-3.pdf
(pdf page 127, footer page number 119)
Any one know the actual number of miles travelled in the first year in order to do a back of an envelope calucation based on the £10-12 million yearly running costs mentioned above?
the 6 month figure was 10 million km, so £10 million/20 million km = 50p + health benefits, reduction in pollution, etc – I wonder if the TFL figure of a 3 to 1 return on cycling investment holds true for the scheme?
Sorry you couldn’t make it. We did get to enjoy the garden before heading in the church (oldest in the city) when the rain finally came.
It was really interesting hearing how passionate people were about the scheme – especially Boris.
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