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Dockless bike-share company Airbike insists it is “definitely” coming to the city despite missing its July launch date, with a fleet of 20 bikes en route to Adelaide ahead of a planned weekend rollout.
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Unfazed by Adelaide’s previous failed foray into the bike-share market, dockless bike company Airbike is hoping a slow and steady approach will help it win over cyclists when it launches here in about two weeks.
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The city council should abandon funding for the Adelaide Free Bikes scheme in favour of commercial bike-share services which are moving to expand across the metropolitan area, a staff report recommends.
Adelaide Free Bikes has won an extension to its contract with the city council, InDaily can reveal, despite the incursion of commercial dockless bike share operators into the CBD last year.
The popular Adelaide Free Bikes scheme is under threat, but $1 million in public funds looks set to be redirected to better city bikeways, after a high-tech Chinese bike-share giant launched in Adelaide this morning.
