Bikes need to be provided with baskets and good locks
Brilliant idea! If many people used it, it would also help to make the streets more safe for cyclists (more cycle lanes?). Freiburg in South Germany is another place with a successful (free)bike scheme. Brilliant idea. Bring it on!
DO IT!
Ensure all cycles are fitted with front and rear lights and non-compliance with their use penalised Good idea
Good idea so long as there are enough bikes of a suitable quality and there are enough places to pick them up/drop them off. Good idea.
Good luck!! great idea!
Great idea! Lets push for the town central areas (i.e. market, south st) to be access, cycle and pedestrian only. Have park and ride facilities used (bus and bike connection P&R) at north end & hospital end. To service the south and east commuters, buy t Great idea.
I have been waiting for this for years! Please implement this!
I like the idea of segways better than cycles for my own purpose. I would need a powered cycle. I think they would be good to offer from a park and ride area and this would ease congestion in town. Free use would be my preference.
I live in Edinburgh, and so often commute by train and bus to/from Leuchars. I have brought my bike through from Edinburgh a number of times, and cycled from Leuchars to St Andrews. If there was an option to hire a bike to make this journey, I would giv I see this as not a matter of \"if\" but \"when\". Bicycles are the most efficient, and cleanest form of transport ever invented. St. Andrews needs to adopt this program asap, and set an example for Scotland as a whole.
I think it is a great idea but would like the possibility of longer term hire without having to drop it off at the end of each day / week.
I think it is a wonderful idea! In Oslo it costs £10 for an annual membership, and the cycles have advertisement on them to pay for most expenses in hiring them out. I would definately use this service every day, like I normally do when I visit Oslo. I think it is an excellent idea but it must be cheap if it is to attract enough business. Would safety equipment i.e. helmet, high-vis or lights be at an extra cost?
I think it is an excellent idea, would be used by both students and tourists, and would fit in with the general atmosphere of the town. I only hope it is implemented before I leave the university! I think It would be wonderful and very very useful! All for it!
I think this is a \'must\' for St Andrews. I observed a similar scheme in Barcelona which works amazingly well. Hopefully this will also mean that there\'ll be more respect and care for cyclists on the road too.
I think this is a fantastic idea. If possible, it would be highly convenient to have designated drop off/pick up spots around town, so that you wouldn\'t necessarily have to return the bike to the same place you got it from, if your plans didn\'t take you I think this is a good idea
I think this is a great initiative! - if it can be made to work at a reasonable price, I shall very likely be a customer. I think this is a really great idea, and I hope it happens soon.
I think this is not only an amazing idea but vital way of providing quick, cheap, easy and clean transportation around St Andrews. I would really love to see it happen!
I\'d would be great to have system like the one in Paris or London, where you pay membership monthly and then have free use for 30 minutes and pay discouted charge for ex. for whole day or week.
I\'m not entirely sure the scheme is practical. I live too far from St Andrews for it to be practical for me to cycle to work, and St Andrews itself is not so big that I need to drive around it. So I drive to work and then walk. A bicycle would be nifty f If bikes could be hired for multiple days at a time this would be ideal, especially at low cost. Additional bike racks would also be necessary.
In order for this to be successful you wouldn\'t just need to have bikes for hire, you\'d also need to vastly improve the quality of the road surfaces in much of the town (as a lot of the cycle path is worn out and rutted) and you\'d need to do something In some cycle hire schemes I\'ve seen, the first half hour is free. I would recommend St Andrews adopt something similar.
it has to be cheap and by cheap I mean cheap for people whose parent are not rich!
It has to made affordable and easily accessible, otherwise it would just as easy to revert back to normal mode of transport. Some of the roads are quite narrow so doesn\'t feel as safe. It may encourage non cyclists to start cycling to work if the hier scheme is cheap enough.
It should be accessible to tourists as well: e.g. setting up an account online must be quick and easy
it should be very cheap so that lots of people will not doubt that they should use it. It is a great idea and I am looking forward to its realisation! It will be very help full specially for students on heavy working days, shopping etc...
It would also be useful if there were a couple of different types of bikes. Commuters, but also road bikes for leisure.
it would be great to be able to cycle to see friends right the other end of town - sometimes a 40 min walk is ok, but often I would drive It would need to be cheap to be effective. No more than say £5 per month.
It\'d be nice to make it to more of my lectures on time, rather than having 7 minutes to walk over a mile.
keep it as cheap as possible check out Perpignan\'s cycle scheme (http://www.bip-perpignan.fr/) which is fantastic and worked quite well many students already have their own bikes, so you would need to make freshers aware of bike rental before they arrive
Most successful hire schemes use pricing whereby the first 30 minutes are free for a weekly/monthly fixed rate. Much required and it would be much appreciated!
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Please do it! Please implement!
possibly a rent as you buy scheme obviously paying a little more than the bike is worth in exchange for hiring as you buy. priority needs to be given to safe storage and out making sure bikes do not inconvenience pedestrians..ie cycling on pavements St Andrews is big enough to get round without a bike
St Andrews is too small for such a scheme to make sense. Much, much better to spend the money building some proper bike lanes in the town and outside (for example, the last two miles into Guardbridge when you get forced onto the pavement...) Sufficient luggage carrying capacity is v. important. Enclosed chain to keep users clean.
The Green bicycle scheme some years ago was a disaster. There would need to be more than \'honesty\' mechanism of control but it would need to operate at weekends and after than 5.00 pm. Also, should run all year- more likely to be used in summer than win the more the bicycles the fewer the cars, the safer the town on the road and for pedestrians.
The scheme would have to be very cheap in order to interest students. The students here that do own a bike tend to use it nearly everyday thus I\'m not sure what audience a cycle hire scheme is targetting. I believe most students at St Andrews have their There should be bike lanes in order to ensure the safety of the bikers while on the main roads and to cope with the increase of bikers who would use the cycle hire scheme.
There would have to be significantly more cycle lanes introduced. Residents asked to be far more considerate by using their driveways rather than the road to park (students currently take their lives in their hands riding between North Haugh and DRA). Cou This is an excellent idea. St Andrews has become increasingly congested with motorised traffic. With hire bikes, more people would feel encouraged to use private bikes - the more cyclists on the road the safer it appears (and motorists learn to be more cy Very good idea, but need more cycle paths and lots a lots and lots more cycle racks to park bikes up- this is needed currently anyway. Would be great idea for those lving in Albany Park and DRA and Fife Park especially
Free 30 mins - maybe not work here as town is so small. Commercial sense Not feasible. Need to be careful about fleet management. Just here for day. Too small town.
Cycle infrastructure not good enough for me. Safety perception not good. Good idea.
Card system - not good. Easy to use. Accessible. Different languages.
Cycling not for me. Town is small enough to walk. Think town is too small, can walk everywhere. Everything is walkable.
Never cycled and don't plan to. Good potential, just not right for us.
Not cycled for a while. Too many cobbles. Small enough to walk.
Green benefit. Small appropriate charge £1 hour. Places of interest/beaches. Not right for me but great for her relatives.
Personal choice.
Doesn't fit with travel patterns when in town. Too small.
Got a car, wouldn't be here long enough.
Good idea for St Andrews. Walk everywhere.
Walk everywhere. Excellent idea.
Like the idea of this but don't think the cycle infrastructure in place (yet). Like the sound of this scheme