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

[Ben Guymer]

Also, they're making 20M / yr from ads on 1,600 bus shelters: that's about $4,000 per vandalised bike - if they have to replace 5,000 bikes/yr (ie 7,500 in 18 months) - not bad! they should quit complaining
Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ben Guymer 
  To: bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au 
  Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 2:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [bikeqld] Brisbane may be saddled with bike hire disaster | TheCourier-Mail


  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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