Dublinbikes
Sign in to saveDublinbikes (styled "dublinbikes") is a public bicycle rental scheme which has operated in the city of Dublin since 2009. At its launch, the scheme, which is sponsored by JCDecaux, used 450 French-made unisex bicycles with 40 stations. By 2011, this had expanded to 550 bicycles and 44 stations, and in 2013 it was announced that a major expansion of the scheme would add a further 950 bikes and another 58 hire points. Dublin was the 17th city to implement such a scheme, and it was considered one of the most successful bike-sharing schemes in the world; however, progress later stalled, with only
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bicycle-sharing system
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Dublin
- Official website
- www.dublinbikes.ie
- Image
- 2018-06-14 01 Dublinbikes bike share at the Guinness Storehouse 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dublin Bikes
- inception
- 2009-00-00
- sponsor
- JCDecaux
- social media followers
- 2400
- location information URL
- www.dublinbikes.ie/en/mapping
- operating area
- Dublin
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Dublinbikes (styled "dublinbikes") is a public bicycle rental scheme which has operated in the city of Dublin since 2009. At its launch, the scheme, which is sponsored by JCDecaux, used 450 French-made unisex bicycles with 40 stations. By 2011, this had expanded to 550 bicycles and 44 stations, and in 2013 it was announced that a major expansion of the scheme would add a further 950 bikes and another 58 hire points. Dublin was the 17th city to implement such a scheme, and it was considered one of the most successful bike-sharing schemes in the world; however, progress later stalled, with only 2 of 14 phases being rolled out.
the scheme lost €376,000 a year, leading to further expansion of Dublin Bikes being put on hold.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dublinbikes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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