Live and work in Zones 2-3 so I barely ever have interactions. If there more around, I'd love to make use of them in the South between Brixton and Clapham.

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I feel the increase by two of cost should have been reflected on the time of usage.

Roads are still not sound in London for cyclists though, as seen in Holborn recently.

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As a student, we employ them to piss about at 4 in the morning as soon as we've hit a brick wall with coursework.

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They're used to promote product Boris and help London look like it's been sponsored by a bank. (Also, how Barclays managed to get our chief roads painted in their corporate colours deserves both deference and distain in equivalent measure!)

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There's a large disparity between perceived danger and real danger. The hammersmith gyratory does feel like an total nightmare on a bike, except thousands of folks cycle through there all day and next to none of them ever get injured. Have you ever been injured? Have you ever seen anybody run over? Or have you just had a a small amount of hair-raising incidents and spent miles on the roads scared shitless that you might be about to be run over at whichever moment?

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Did you not look at the article? The response to your question is pretty evident then: of course you can return it to a different docking station.

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> I think they need to spread out to fill zone 2 at least. everybody who lives there could bike to central and this would give them all the ability

The problem in mainly residential areas is that this would only help a dozen people or so for each new docking station, for the reason that when all the bikes are gone scarcely anybody will return on a bike until the evening. They work best in locations where people are coming and going at not the same times. Also, it would demand building more docking stations in Central London to accomodate the added bikes that would be there all through the day.

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That's a bloody good point, actually. The only time I've had a real mishap in london was in Chiswick, and even that was just for the reason that i slipped off my pedal and panicked.

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You should check out the www.beta.tfl.gov.uk website, once it goess live it less you how swift it is to cycle distances when you map a journey- It's surprisingly prompt quite often I find.

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I have had a dongle since the first day and love them. Its easily the most reliable way to get around central London. So this week, for example, I'm working at Old Bailey and have a 1730 meeting at Aldwych. It will take me about five minutes. Portland Place to Aldwych in 12 minutes.

They are a bit heavy but that stops me doing silly things and I find traffic quite wary of 22 kilo of bike surmounted by middle-aged woman with no helmet, formal attire and heels. They steer seriously clear because they don't know I know what I am doing (I think this explains only one death in three years)

The new New York citybikes are even better: cheaper, lighter, more docking stations and they are bigger. But it only goes up to 61st so far. They seem really popular.

Here, I don't think it's only tourists - the need to extend docking stations at the termini I think demonstrates they are used by commuters, although that was not the original intention.

Anyhow, I love them!

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