London Cycle Hire

Bollocks.

Even if that is the case, it doesn't automatically give Barclays carte blanche to plaster their name all over it.

This is different to normal advertising. It's on the street, public streets. Boris has sold it off for a pittance. Billboards and all that are privately owned.

It's depressing how willing people are to accept and even defend corporate BS

Its also depressing how people attack something just because it has had to have corporate money to get up and running.

And how is it any different to all the other advertising the government sells off? The problem here is you dont like Barclays, not that you dont like afdvertising on the bikes