Downward
Guru
- Location
- West Midlands
Seems worthwile 
Hiring is easy. Once you have registered online (at a cost of £18 per year or £5 for a week) you simply go to a hire station and call OYBike from your mobile phone. The system automatically recognises your phone number and releases a bike. And if you don't have a mobile there are other options.
Your first 30 minutes of riding is free, with costs rising gradually to £5 for between 4 and 24 hours
Especially if this is true :
the coverage of this scheme is tiny - the same area can be covered by foot.
Cardiff have also made it more difficult for cycling, because at the same time of introducing this scheme they have also now moronically banned any cycle usage from the pedestrianised centre of Cardiff (Queen Street, the Hayes etc). I haven't seen anyone use the bikes so far, and can't see it encouraging the casual user, as it means that, to get across from the town hall to the station or the bay, you can't go through the centre and need to get across the dual lane heavy congestion horror of North Road/Castle Street to the west, or the equally dangerous Dumfries Place/Fitzalan place to the east.
This is an isolated gesture, without the bike friendly transport infrastructure to support it, and without any integrated transport thinking from Cardiff council at all. My cycle journey from Roath to Cardiff station has been made progressively more and more difficult over the last couple of years.
Hiring is easy. Once you have registered online (at a cost of £18 per year or £5 for a week) you simply go to a hire station and call OYBike from your mobile phone. The system automatically recognises your phone number and releases a bike. And if you don't have a mobile there are other options.
Your first 30 minutes of riding is free, with costs rising gradually to £5 for between 4 and 24 hours
Especially if this is true :
the coverage of this scheme is tiny - the same area can be covered by foot.
Cardiff have also made it more difficult for cycling, because at the same time of introducing this scheme they have also now moronically banned any cycle usage from the pedestrianised centre of Cardiff (Queen Street, the Hayes etc). I haven't seen anyone use the bikes so far, and can't see it encouraging the casual user, as it means that, to get across from the town hall to the station or the bay, you can't go through the centre and need to get across the dual lane heavy congestion horror of North Road/Castle Street to the west, or the equally dangerous Dumfries Place/Fitzalan place to the east.
This is an isolated gesture, without the bike friendly transport infrastructure to support it, and without any integrated transport thinking from Cardiff council at all. My cycle journey from Roath to Cardiff station has been made progressively more and more difficult over the last couple of years.
