Did you tap in and out at your destination station?
Another dockless bikes thread
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Did you tap in and out at your destination station?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
as there were no instructions and the gates had oyster on them .
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
We had co-bikes in Exeter until it went bust last year, it was a good service (bikes were a bit ropey). Their drop off points didn't all have docks, you just locked the rear wheel (Dutch style lock) the within drop off zone. Your app would show that you'd locked the bike & returned it.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
They nearly always have the contactless symbol and "contactless payments accepted" beneath the oyster logo now, and there should have been posters with the web address of instructions on, like these:
TfL probably doesn't put expensive instruction leaflets at every gate line. They don't have much money to spare. That's probably part of why their docked bike hire charges went up, which may be why lime, forest and the other dockless bikes have become more popular.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
There was nothing that we could see,it just said oyster by the entrance for that contactless pad but no instructions at all .didn't have a clue.
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Interesting. I didn't realise that the DLR is alongside the docked bikes as unstaffed London transport. The underground, overground, lizzy line, boats (including central piers), cable car and coach station are all staffed. https://tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibility/help-from-staffAnd most stations are unstaffed too. I feel for you.
But Stratford International and Stratford London are both staffed. I wonder where they were hiding?
Getting back to the topic, how easy are the dockless bikes to use correctly? I've failed to use the Voi ones, as mentioned above, and I think someone replied to say I'm not the only one. Do any dockless systems have info points, shops or staff, or are they all "flying" operations that can vanish overnight like Ofo did?
