A NEW bike hire scheme is being launched today at Warrington Bank Quay station.
The Brompton Dock bicycle hire scheme allows people to hire one of 60 folding bikes from solar-powered docking stations located at Warrington Central, Warrington Bank Quay and Birchwood stations.
There are two membership tariffs, frequent and leisure. Frequent membership costs £45 annually and then £2.50 per day to hire a bike. Leisure membership costs £10 annual membership fee and then £5 per day to hire a bike.
The council is subsidising membership fees for the first 100 people to join the scheme, offering a reduction to just £10 for a year’s frequent membership. All you have to do is register online and use promo code “WBC2013” when buying your membership.
The hire scheme forms part of the council’s Warrington Sustainable Travel Triangle Project, which aims to provide the town with sustainable and low carbon travel choices.
New bike hire scheme for Warrington
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I saw a report on London’s Boris Bikes that showed that taxpayer was subsidising the scheme at a rate of £1400 per annum per bike.
Your point is?
How much will this cost the council to support?
A one off £3500 according to the report.
£3500 to install solar powered docking points in three separate locations and buy 60 folding bikes? I really don’t think so!!! You’d struggle to get that done for £35,000! And since the bikes are to be located at train stations and hired out on a day basis the vast majority of people using them (if ANYONE does!) would have to be people commuting in to those stations in the morning from outside the borough. Which genius thought it was a good idea to use WBC council tax payers money to subsidise the travel of non-Warringtonians?
The figure of £3500 is just the cost of subsidising 100 memberships from £45 down to £10 for the first year.
For anyone who misses out on the first 100 council subsidised places check out the Brompton Dock bicycle hire website. If you join BEFORE 31 August it’s £20 for the Frequent Membership (usually £45) and only £1 for the Leisure membership (usually £10 )… obviously only any use to people travelling into Warrington by train from further afield and who then need to get somewhere else (place of work maybe) in Warrington……….. Considering the number of commuters I sometimes see coming out of Central Station in the mornings though is 20 bikes enough or will they be fighting over them 😉 🙂 Actually there’s a thought… what if you borrow one and it gets pinched ??
So far, this council has installed miles and miles of cycle lanes which cyclists on the whole don’t use and now they (using our money) are proposing this crazy scheme….Just what we need….more cyclists clogging up the roads and the council are no doubt using the extra revenue generated from the increased parking charges south of the borough (which will no doubt be rolled out to all council car parks at some stage.. The money grabbers show no mercy to the motorist as usual