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Docking stations consist of a terminal and docking points where users pick up and return cycles. The terminal at each docking station contains a screen allowing users to: [1] Hire a cycle with a chip and PIN payment card if the user does not have a key; Print a record of their journey; Find other nearby docking stations, necessary if one is ...
The scheme was a collaboration between Santander UK, Milton Keynes Council (MKC) and Milton Keynes City Centre Management. [3] The scheme launched on June 17, 2016 with 300 bikes across 42 docking stations [4] in Milton Keynes. Santander UK ambassador Jenson Button is the face of the bicycle hire scheme.
This was later expanded to 8,000 cycles from 570 stations, and is now branded Santander Cycles. The scheme, run by Montreal-based PBSC Urban Solutions, initially covered about 17 square miles (44 square kilometres). [29] The docking stations were spaced 300 m (980 ft) apart, and sited mainly at key destinations and tube stations.
The docking stations are special bike racks that lock the bike, and only release it by computer control. Individuals registered with the program identify themselves with their membership card (or by a smart card , via cell phone, or other methods) at any of the hubs to check out a bicycle for a short period of time, usually three hours or less.
"Boris Bikes" from the Santander Cycles hire scheme waiting for use at a docking station in Victoria. The original Hampton Court Bridge in 1753, the first of four on the site. Archer statue by Eric Aumonier at East Finchley Underground station.
In July 2010, Barclays Cycle Hire commenced operations with 5,000 bicycles and 315 docking stations distributed across the City of London area. [2] There are now 10,000 Bixi rental bikes in use in London, now operated under the name Santander Cycles. In 2009, Canada Economic Development allocated funding to help Cycles Devinci acquire equipment ...
There are three Santander Cycles public cycle hire docking stations on or close to Lavender Hill (on Dorothy Road at the western end, on Lavender Hill itself close to the junction with Sugden Road, and on Ashley Crescent at the eastern end).
Santander Cycles docking station on Exhibition Road. Cycling in London is a widely popular mode of transport and leisure activity within London. As of 2008 more than one million Londoners owned bicycles, an 83 per cent increase over ownership in 2000. [60] There are currently an estimated 480,000 cycle journeys each day in the capital.