Fear for your lives next summer

Heavy night?

They have something similar in Trondheim. Lived there around 10 years ago, and used to use them alot. Trouble was all the functional ones would collect at just a handful of popular destinations, as most people used them for oneway journeys.

Tidal flows will be a problem in London, too--i.e., most people travelling radially into the centre in the AM peak, and radially out of the centre in the PM peak, but it is expected that bikes will be redistributed evenly throughout the daytime. Remember that London is insanely busy and full of people in a hurry, and the number of bikes so far is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions of individual journeys undertaken in London every day.

Bikes will generally be functional owing to a solid maintenance back-up. The Trondheim scheme sounds like one of those older schemes that weren't fully thought through.