{"id":393136,"date":"2025-09-02T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:46:11","slug":"new-cycle-hire-scheme-set-to-launch-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393136\/","title":{"rendered":"New cycle hire scheme set to launch in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Going west, it follows Salisbury Road, Salisbury Place, Grange Court, Sciennes Road and Warrender Park Road, before carving out the south end of the Links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Completing the boundary of the coverage area, it runs up Viewforth, along Dundee Street, and then in a roughly straight line between Murdoch Terrace and Magdelena Crescent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses at Voi have said they will avoid the same fate as Edinburgh&#8217;s last cycle hire scheme, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58272187\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsed under the cost of maintenance and vandalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bikes were often thrown in the Water of Leith or other bodies of water, and that scheme \u2013 which was also meant to run at no cost \u2013 ended up costing \u00a31.8m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managers have said Voi&#8217;s bikes are sturdier than those used by the old Just Eat scheme, and have benefited from technological advances since its failure four years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Additional reporting by <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">local democracy reporter<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> Joe Sullivan.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going west, it follows Salisbury Road, Salisbury Place, Grange Court, Sciennes Road and Warrender Park Road, before carving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-393136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115137372808752505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}