Britain | London's bicycle-hire scheme
Grit in the gears
Early snags for the mayor of London’s pet transport project
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BESIDES being the Year of the Tiger, the International Year of Biodiversity and the Year of the Lung, 2010 was also, in London at least, the “Year of Cycling”. Following assorted cities in France, Spain, the Netherlands and North America, London launched a municipal bicycle-hire scheme in July, with 5,000 bikes scattered around hundreds of docking stations in the centre of the city.
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