Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Santander bike station in Finsbury Park?
How easy would it be to make this happen? Could some of the money raised by the council from events help contribute / bribe TFL into extending the scheme up here.
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Permalink Reply by Josh LK on
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Uber bikes, Lime and MoBike are all over London including Finsbury Park and Harringay.
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Permalink Reply by DTW on
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Yes -the benefit of the Santander bikes is the docking station and that they get distributed.
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Santander bikes come no further north than Camden Market/Islington Green. Some years ago the idea was floated of a Santander ebikes docking station around here to address the Muswell Hill catchment area, but I think the W7 bus won out - this was well before the e-Lime and Uber electric bikes started popping up like metallic Banksy street installations.....
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Santander Bikes only for Central London and.......Stratford. Decided by 'decree' that it should be in zone 2.
It is 7.3 km from Trafalgar square. Seven Sisters e.g is just 6.9 km from Trafalgar Square.
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Well it's THE Olympics legacy hotspot so it's not surprising, plus there's a good deal of traffic-free infrastructure compatible with bikes.
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So I know that the bikes don’t go their at the moment - I’m asking whether this could be changed?
Isn’t Finsbury Park in zone 2 anyway at the bottom end at least?
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Permalink Reply by TTTH on
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I remember seeing the image of a mountain of dumped rental bikes in China a few years ago:
https://news.sky.com/story/in-china-rental-bikes-have-become-a-soci...
Is it just a matter of time before it starts happening here?
Prefer the docking stations of the Santander model and wouldn't mind more competitors if they had similar docking stations.
Also it would be good if TfL linked up the £2 daily rental of the Santander bike to the daily cap of the travelcard. Or maybe they do and I just don't know about it?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I was in Paris a few months ago and dockless bikes and electric scooters have become a real menace. They are in heaps outside of the major metro and overground interchanges and in parks. I detest them and worry that we’re on the road to the same thing here (I can see a green Lime bike abandoned in the middle of the pavement outside my house right now)
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I'm with you on this Micheal, I was shocked by the images of mountains of abandoned dockless bikes in China , years ago before they made an appearance in Europe. Dockless bikes are, as a general rule, cheap to produce in numbers and poorly or not maintained at all, just being left to rot on the streets and I imagine disposed of by local authorities.
Im all for bikes with docking stations though.
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So how can we get some of the Santander ones in docking stations to Finsbury Park! Could the money from the festivals not be used.
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Santander are pretty good at getting back to you on the phone if you have an enquiry and apparently its up to the local authorities to request the docking station. also for interest to my travelcard cap query above, they are not linked to TfL therefore cannot be included in the daily cap
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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The principal is good. But in todays World. Seems to many are willing to Spoil the Idea
I have seen many Hire Bikes littered around in often parts removed state
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