Boris Bike scheme - The trouble with bicycles for hire!

Published: 06 August 2010

• WITH the new cycle hire scheme, can someone explain to me how contractors get permission to go out and do work at such anti-social hours?

Contractors were out here at 10 minutes past midnight the other day,  doing… what exactly?

And couldn’t they have waited till the morning? And they have been here installing the bikes at 5.50am. Why on earth should they be allowed to do it, or don’t they need permission from the council? 

There seems to be no consideration for tenants at all. Any number of people have objected to this scheme.

EILEEN FRY, WC1

•  BICYCLES for hire must be something we should all welcome, but I noticed nobody was wearing a helmet.  

Bicycling in London is a dangerous activity.  So let’s see a few more helmets in evidence, even if these bikes for hire are not road-racers!

DEIRDRE KRYMER, NW5