Councils tops poll that asks who should pay for bike share schemes

More than 40% of respondents to a TransportXtra survey believe that councils should cover the costs of operating bike share schemes. In a Twitter poll asking who should pay for bike share schemes, ‘local authorities’ came top with 41%, followed by ‘users of the scheme’ (32%), ‘private operators’ (15%) and ‘private sponsors’ (12%).

To find out more about bike share schemes come to Healthy Streets and meet operators nextbike and Urbo.