
Melbourne's share bikes hit wall
Melbourne’s publicly-funded bike-share scheme is being scrapped because it’s expensive and people aren’t using it.
Melbourne’s publicly-funded bike-share scheme is being scrapped because it’s expensive and people aren’t using it.
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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EXCLUSIVE | The only competitor to bikeshare giant ofo has been told to cease operating in Adelaide, handing the Chinese company an effective monopoly as it lobbies to become a sanctioned private arm of SA’s public transport network.
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 Adelaide City Council has opened a bitter public spat with senior staff after a bike-share scheme was granted a permit to launch in the CBD without elected members’ approval.
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.