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London Cycling Revolution is booming
Londoners and visitors to the city are being encouraged to join the capital’s Cycling Revolution by the Mayor of London and Transport for London who are investing a record £116 million in 2010/11 on improving safety for cyclists as well as a range of cycle projects, including landmark Barclays Cycle Superhighways and Barclays Cycle Hire, with the aim to reach a 400 per cent increase in cycling in the Capital by 2025 (compared to 2000 levels).
Spring into cycling with Barclays Cycle Hire
Barclays Cycle Hire is the newest mode of public transport in central London. It was launched as the capital’s most sustainable mode of transport on 30 July 2010 and has since been massively successful, with nearly five million journeys made by the end of May 2011.
It is a self-service bicycle sharing scheme for short journeys 24 hours a day, every day of he year. There is no booking and bicycles can be picked up from one docking station and returned to any other, ready for the next person.
There are two ways to use the scheme:
- as an Occasional user, access can be purchased with a credit or debit card at a docking station terminal for 24 hours or 7 days
- as a Member, bicycles can be accessed without the need to use a terminal thanks to a membership key. Member can also opt for an annual access fee, which equates to as little as a 12p a day for unlimited journeys
Either way, there are no usage charges for all journeys under 30 minutes each, as long as they are within the chosen access period.
There are currently 400 docking stations dotted throughout central London, offering almost 6,000 bicycles.
For more information about the scheme and how to use it, log onto www.tfl.gov.uk/barclayscyclehire.
Your own fast track with Barclays Cycle Superhighways
Barclays Cycle Superhighways are highly visible blue cycle routes providing cyclists with safer, faster and more direct journeys into the city from outer London.
Following the overwhelming success of the two pilot Superhighways (CS3 Barking to Tower Gateway and CS7 Merton to City) with a 70 percent increase in cycle journeys since July 2010, work has started on the next two Barclays Cycle Superhighways, the CS2 from Bow to Aldgate, and the CS8 from Wandsworth to Westminster, which will be launching in July 2011.
The remaining eight routes will be introduced by 2015.
For more information about this initiative, log onto www.tfl.gov.uk/barclayscyclesuperhighways.
To find out more accommodation, places to and what's on in London, go to www.visitlondon.com.
You can use a cycle journey planner to get you from home or an overground railway station to The Tour Ride London circuit location on Whitehall. Please click on this link to find out more. http://cyclejourneyplanner.tfl.gov.uk
