Fear for your lives next summer

Shame that they won't be near stations. That seems INSANE to me. This will change if the launch goes well, presumably, as the bleedin OBVIOUS place to put them is where train commuters can use them - surely?! Oliver tell me why not!

Well, this has been debated ad nauseam, and there are a number of reasons for it. There are stations from which tens of thousands of commuters emerge in the morning--some hire bikes in front of that would indeed not be very useful. If you want to dream of train-bike integration, you need to argue for more cycle carriage and cycle parking (for people's own bikes) at stations. A cycle hire scheme isn't going to cut it. There are a number of other, more minor reasons not worth going into.