{"id":411018,"date":"2025-09-09T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:45:13","slug":"edinburghs-new-e-bike-hire-scheme-under-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411018\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh&#8217;s new e-bike hire scheme under the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday September 9th 2025<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Liam Eunson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh\u2019s new e-bike hire scheme was introduced last Wednesday, introducing a new affordable and eco-friendly mode of transport to the capital in the form of Voi cycle hires.<\/p>\n<p>With the Swedish e-bike operators filling Edinburgh\u2019s streets with 50 modern electric hire bikes, they plan to expand to over 800 bikes darted about the city.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Liam Eunson went out to trial the e-bikes, analysing their affordability, performance and overall effect it will have on the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Click the video above to see reporter Liam Eunson\u2019s analysis and views on the new cycle hire.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=https:\/\/www.midlothianview.com\/news\/edinburghs-new-e-bike-hire-scheme-under-the-spotlight\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-twitter\" rel=\"noopener\"> Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.midlothianview.com\/news\/edinburghs-new-e-bike-hire-scheme-under-the-spotlight\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-facebook\" rel=\"noopener\"> Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                \u00a0<br \/>\n                \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ppnewsletter-text-padding\">Subscribe to the Midlothian View newsletter<\/p>\n<p><b>Support Midlothian View from as little as \u00a31. It only takes a minute. Thank you.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>                \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday September 9th 2025 Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Liam Eunson Edinburgh\u2019s new e-bike hire scheme was introduced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411018","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\/115175590207346402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411018","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=411018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}