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I'm very confused about the various motivations of the professional institutions here. My LCC mag trumpets the 'fact' that 24,000 journeys were made on Barclays bikes helping people to cope with the tube strike.
The number of people that commute to work by tube each day is about 3.5 million. And on top of that is trains and buses.
So, that's 0.7% or so of tube travellers - maybe 0.3% of all commuters - "beat the strike" by using a Barclays bike, and that's if we assume (which we can't) that every one of those Barclays bikes was used to replace a tube journey.
Oh, and the biggest thing that would cut traffic in the peak is school buses. Barclays bikes are not about practical transport solutions.