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On Aug 13, 4:31*pm, Mizter T wrote:

He also links to BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards
and a piece about the scheme (one of many) on his Mind The Gap blog,
replete with embedded videos (and interviews) etc - haven't watched
any of them yet, but the freeze-frame on the first video appears to
show a hire bike recirculator arrangement with traction provided by
a tractor type arrangement as favoured by park keepers (or at least
'council park chiefs').

I spotted one of these in the wild on Friday evening, on Great
Portland Street:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teflon/4893603796/

Chatting to the guys unloading bikes from it, it seems that the Ford
Focuses may be a stop-gap measure until they can get more of the
electric vans delivered.

That figures. I saw one of those in Bellgrove St.

Talking of which I noticed the Bellgrove station empty of bikes when I
passed at 10:10 this morning. First time I've passed and it's had none at
all.

The web site has three cycles and 18 spaces there now. So they seem to
have got the right total now.

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Colin Rosenstiel