Saturday, September 25, 2010

Waiting for a ride...

As you can see, Brisbane is implementing its public bike hire scheme soon. The idea is you unlock a bike from one of these stations using your own special keycard and you can ride it to somewhere else in the city with a similar station. I'm interested to see if it will work and who will use the scheme.

The other night, workers across the city had to unceremoniously dig a whole load of these stations up because they had been cemented in the wrong way around. All good now though, I think! All we need is some bikes
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5 comments:

  1. JimSeptember 25, 2010 at 8:46 PM

    That's interesting. I've seen discussions about that possibly happening in Sydney too.

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  2. Gerald (SK14)September 26, 2010 at 2:34 AM

    cemented in the wrong way round - great start!

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  3. paulSeptember 26, 2010 at 5:10 AM

    We have a similar scheme in Auckland, but not via cards, it's based on mobile phone communication. I am not very often in the city, have not used it. I have taken shots of the parked bikes, will have to post.

    http://nextbike.co.nz/

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  4. JoannaSeptember 26, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    They just started that in Chicago, but it's only in the central business/tourist district and there aren't too many of the stations as I remember reading. It sounds like a good idea, but time will tell...

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  5. BlameyOctober 1, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    Don't forget your helmet

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