Update August 11th 2009: There is now a website for this (http://www.dublinbikes.ie) and the scheme is due to launch on September 13th.
I discussed the Dublin Bike Scheme in a previous post quite some time ago however I’m glad to say it is finally being introduced.
Here we can see the station being built at Jervis street:
Jervis Street Bike Station
The scheme will be comprised of 450 bikes at 40 locations around the city. There will be a deposit of €150 reserved on your credit card when you take out a bike. You may buy a 7 day card for €1 and the first 30minutes of using a bike is free. After that the prices keep going up each hour. You may return a bike to any station and take out another one for 30minutes again for free. Another option is to buy an anual card for about €10 for the year.
Hopefully the service will become popular in Dublin.
That’s a great map Patrick. Pity there are no bike stations up around the digital depot and hueston station. Quite surprising actually.
So according to your map, for €10/year I could cycle for 1.5miles x 2 between connolly and christchurch. So rather than 40 mins walk I would guess a 20 mins cycle. So saving 20mins x 220 days = 73 hours per year, or 9 work days. Hmm.
True words, some authentic words man. Totally made my day.