| Comment | Keep seeing (justifiable) comments like this, so I don't think the council has done the best job in communicating this. A bit of a wider issue with how GCC promote their work to be honest.
AFAIK this is a pilot, so it's expected it'll expand across the city in the coming years to areas other than the Southside and West End. It's run through a private company (Cycle Hoop), a little like how Nextbike works, so there's an element of the business wanting best return on its investment. From what I remember when this was first announced a few years back, the criteria for the 70 or so eventual locations was a combination of cycle ownership, population density, and proximity to busy cycle routes.
It's very much a residential focused pilot at the moment. You need a key to access it, so this isn't really geared for pubic use at subway stops / universities / shopping centres etc. |
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