Transport for London has began submitting planning applications for 400 cycle docking stations which will form the infrastructure backbone of the capital’s cycle hire scheme, expected to launch in May 2010.
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London cycle hire scheme opens to tenders
Transport for London is inviting bids to run a new bike hire scheme after a study released today showed the scheme is viable and could create more than 40,000 extra daily cycle trips in central London.
London Cycle Hire Scheme Announced
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced plans to create a new network of ‘quick, simple, and safe routes’ for cyclists and pedestrians with a promise to ‘change the profile and priority of walking and cycling on London’s streets.’
Goldsmith pledges outer London bike hire schemes and ‘guaranteed’ cycle superhighways
High build-out and infrastructure costs have seen current Mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London back away from expanding the scheme beyond its current 12 host boroughs.
Cycle revolution gets underway as hire scheme opens
London’s cycle hire scheme officially opened today, almost three years after then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone asked transport bosses in the capital to investigate the feasibility of such a scheme after he was impressed by Paris’s Velib service.
