{"id":45536,"date":"2017-02-25T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/on-your-bike-the-best-and-the-worst-of-city-cycle-schemes\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:14:29","slug":"on-your-bike-the-best-and-the-worst-of-city-cycle-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/on-your-bike-the-best-and-the-worst-of-city-cycle-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"On your bike: the best and the worst of city cycle schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs bike-sharing in London hits a record high, we explore schemes across the globeThis year is the 10th \u00adanniversary of the world\u2019s first large-scale bike-sharing scheme, the Velib in Paris, whose immediate success \u2013 20 million users in its first year \u2013 prompted cities across the world to wheel out their own copies. A decade later there are 1,000 of these schemes, from Milton Keynes to the medina in Marrakech, with 17 across the UK and more opening this year. Some have back-pedalled: Seattle will shut its Pronto scheme in March, a victim of hills, rain, budget cuts and the city\u2019s mandatory helmet law, while in Spain cash-strapped local authorities have put the brakes on half of the country\u2019s 130 schemes. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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