Bike hire comes to London

London is finally set to receive it's cycle hire scheme in the next few months, with operations set to be ready for the summer. The scheme, backed by pro-bicycle London Mayor Boris Johnson is based around the successful scheme which operates in Paris. The bicycle hire scheme will feature a number of 'cycle banks' positioned around the city from which users will borrow the bikes for short journeys, then returning them to any other cycle bank. Bicycle hire is predicted to create an additional 40,000 bicycle trips today around the capital, and of course all this travel will be totally green and environmentally friendly- a journey on a bike rather than hopping on a bus will even benefit the health of Londoners. This is defiantly a scheme which should be welcomed in the capital.