Rentals of Boris bikes a third down compared to this time last year, a Freedom of Information request has shown. 

The London Evening Standard report: 

The number of Boris bikes being hired fell by almost a third over the year to March, new figures reveal.

A rise in the price and bad winter weather are being blamed for the decline in popularity of the Mayor’s flagship scheme.

In the first week of March — the most recent for which figures are available — there were 135,364 bikes hired compared with more than 193,000 in the same week last year.

You can read the full story here.

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.