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Bike hire free for all

Local Transport Today
21 July 2017
 

Social media and old school media are both having field days with the launch of dockless bike hire schemes in Manchester and London. Photos abound of vandalised bikes in northern climes and bikes with obstruction notices slapped on in the capital. The developing narrative is that the introduction of these schemes has been poorly thought-through, and there are even suggestions that perhaps Mancunians really aren’t into this sharing culture after all.

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