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THE PUBLIC BIKE schemes for Cork, Galway and Limerick will be in place within 5-6 months after the tender was awarded for the supply, installation and maintenance of the bikes.
A consortium known as An Rothar Nua will has been awarded the contract to implement Coke Zero Bikes in the three cities with the Department of Transport to provide about €4.5 million in set-up costs.
The annual operational cost for the Coke Zero Bikes is estimated at €1.25 million per year.
The National Transport Authority have yet to the outline what the subscription cost for the service will be, saying that they will have “similar or lower membership subscriptions and user fees to Dublin Bikes”.
The annual subscription cost for Dublin Bikes is €20, when a user takes out a bike it is free to use for the first half-hour with a charge thereafter.
Coca-Cola were announced as sponsors of the scheme last September when the operational date was set as July 2014.
Going by the estimate provided by the National Transport Authority today, that target will not be met with the NTA saying the scheme will now be operational in autumn.
Coca-Cola Ireland will invest €3 million over five years for their sponsorship rights.
The final details of the scheme show that there will be 740 bikes across the three cities:
Contract details
The An Rothar Nua Consortium awarded the contract is made up of four different companies, two based in Ireland and two in Europe.
France based Tracetel SA operate bike schemes in a number of different French cities. West Ireland Cycling are a bike rental company based in Galway. Centre d’Initiative et Gestion Locale are a Luxembourgish public bike company and ParkByText are an Irish mobile parking payment platform.
The NTA says that the terms of the contract with the consortium are structured to allow for the introduction of additional cities such as Waterford.
Minister for Public and Commuter Transport Alan Kelly said that the Coke Zero Bikes scheme was one of his main priorities
“Now that the contract is in place the bikes, stands and other infrastructure will follow quickly, ” said. ”The Coke Zero Bikes schemes will do more to promote a culture of cycling in these cities than any other project”.
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I hope that there is full integration involving these bikes and Dublin Bikes. Existing Dublin Bikes users should absolutely be able to use these bikes if visiting Cork, Limerick or Galway.
You’d never make it to Cork on one of those things, it’s all uphill.
it’s 50% downhill…
As a sceptic of the original JC Decaux Dublin Bikes project… I predicted that 1/3 of the Bikes would end up in the Liffey or vandalised with in the first two years
I was wrong…..Well wear on the new projects.
It would help if Irish drivers didn’t treat the driving test like the leaving cert and forget everything they learn the minute they pass the bloody thing. I lived in several countries and with the exception of Italy , Irish drivers are the worst I’ve experienced in Europe. They have absolutly no awareness of whats going on around them what so ever. They’d last about 10mins in Germany or The Netherlands.
Zero Coke bikes sounds much better !
Dublin city is destroyed with these fekn corpo bikes they havnt a clue about the rules of the road flying out in front of traffic wearing head phones no helmets and not a hivis to be seen
Why should they need a hi viz cycling in broad daylight?
Joe,
What benefits would helmets have exactly?
Vast majority of cyclist deaths are caused by HGV’s, unless a helmet is going to stop a person’s body being crushed under a several tonne truck then compulsory helmets are really not going to save lives.
Of course if any government in this country was stupid enough to make helmets compulsory then the amount of people cycling in Ireland would drop through the floor. The Dublin bike scheme would get next to no usage and we’d end up with far more health problems with people then we already have.
Don’t believe me, well you’ve only to look at Australia as a comparison on how NOT to get people to cycle – http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1211.html
“almost all observers put the failure of the Melbourne scheme down to the State of Victoria’s mandatory helmet law which makes casual use of the bikes difficult. In Dublin there is no helmet law. While some people using the hire bikes there do wear helmets, most don’t.
No city with a helmet law has achieved a successful hire bike scheme. In Auckland, New Zealand the NextBike scheme folded in November 2010 having achieved only 50 rentals a day. In Mexico City a helmet law was rescinded due to its impact on bike hire. Another Australian scheme in Brisbane appears to be getting off to a slow start.”
As a cyclist doing roughtly 30/40 km most days for last 5 years it should be made compulsary for all cyclists to wear a helmet and a hiviz vest,and furthermore the rules of the road should apply just like for everyone that uses public roads and pathways,the incidence of cyclist deaths is on the rise and anything that adds to public safety should be welcomed.
nah
Incidents of cyclist deaths are falling as far as I know… And rules of the road do apply to cyclists
@richard – Rules of the road do apply to cyclists you tyrant!
3 million sponsorship over 5 years for bikes. Thats more then the entire League of Ireland will get in the same time frame.
I can’t cycle.
It’s as easy as riding a bike.
Limerick isn’t all that big like I cud see it being a use to students going between campuses but that’s about it.
It’s bigger than Galway so what’s your point??
Mark, Jeff doesn’t have a point.
he’s just yet another person in a long line of negative people that don’t see the benefits to the bike scheme.
So many doubting people in Dublin were proved very very wrong when the Dublin bike scheme was a success, Limerick will be no different.
Unfortunately the implementation of the Limerick scheme will be poor. All the stands will be in the city centre, which is compact and mostly one way so a bike is not needed there. Now you would think the Crescent would be an obvious place but at the consultation I was told this was ‘ too far’ for the casual cyclist. Asked what they based that on they said Google maps :/. Likewise UL and LIT would seem like obvious places for stands but that’s not going to happen. I think it would be fantastic to have them in the suburbs, Corbally, Caherdavin, Raheen are all only a couple of miles but I was told again too far for the casual cyclist. Very disappointed as I thought this has massive potential for Limerick! Rant over.
Won’t all of these bikes just increase pollution?
Eh, what? Care to explain
Pollution of the atmosphere.
You know they are not motorbikes just pedal cycles right?
Watch out Cork more bad driving on the way, better get more ambulances and more A&E spaces because they are bad enough in cars wait till they get on bikes it will be a laugh.
Due late but it’s coming, govt hunting for votes anybody?
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