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Auck To Get Bike Rental For RWC
As tipped here recently, Auckland will get a trial bike rental scheme in time for the RWC 2011, with the plan for it to become more permanent and be extended to...
Wheels Come Off Nextbikes
Auckland’s public bike hire service, Next Bikes, is suspended from tonight. NextBike’s Julian Hulls said it was with a “heavy heart” that Nextbikes...
Where’s Cycle ‘n’ Ride?
Anyone else noticed how many bikes are popping up at train stations chained to whatever anyone can find? They seem to be growing in number -and there would be more...
Council Decision On Nextbike
Paris scheme Auckland City Council’s transport committee held its promised discussion today about what to do about the Nextbike commercial bike rental scheme. While...
NextBike Puts Its Case
NextBike’s Julian Hulls was given time at this morning’s Auckland City Council transport committee meeting to put forward his business case. Afterwards...
NextBike’s NextMoves
NextBike goes before Auckland City Councillors tomorrow to plead its case to continue. I wish them all the best. You may recall that in April, despite moves by both...
Greens Attack Council Crackdown
The Greens say it’s absurd that the Auckland City Council is forcing cycle hire company NextBike to reduce the number of bikes available. As revealed here at the...
How To Kill Off Cycling
NZTA is really getting behind cycling -with the launch today of the Northwestern motorway Kingsland cycleway - riding it was my highlight of the day! And it’s...
NextBike Gets It Right!
All it needed was a pole, a few nails and a sign. That was my argument about getting the message out there about NextBike’s worthy scheme of encouraging locals...
NextBike Good Idea But No-one Gets It
All around Auckland, there are bike stands like this with bikes chained to them. NextBike won the support of ARTA as an official sponsor, and anything to encourage...
Official Support For Cycling As Part of Mix
ARTA is putting its money where its mouth is in getting behind encouraging cycling. The authority is going to officially sponsor the Nextbike scheme that allows...
