[bikeqld] Brisbane may be saddled with bike hire disaster | TheCourier-Mail

[Ben Guymer]

It's probably easy to make it look bad... if bikes were used that much in brissie it would surely be hugely successful!
It sounds like they mostly just bit off a bit more than they can chew to me:

If the stats are right, then each bike has been used ~2000 times in 18 months (42,000,000 uses, and say, 21,000 bikes (15,000 working + 6,000 broken)) which seems 
pretty decent - at 10,000 k's/yr that's also pretty good - incidentally giving a 7.5km average trip which also seems reasonable..

Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Hockey 
  To: bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au 
  Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:30 AM
  Subject: [bikeqld] Brisbane may be saddled with bike hire disaster | TheCourier-Mail


  Check out the video on the Mx site

  The story itself seems to have originated in the UK

  http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25039910-3102,00.html 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7881079.stm

   

  R



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