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Belfast City Council launched a new public bike share scheme on Monday 27 April 2015 as part of their Investment Programme. Coca-Cola Zero Belfast Bikes provides 300 public bikes at 30 bike docking stations in the city centre.

It is interesting to see how quickly the Public Bike scheme was established in Belfast. It took years to establish the DublinBike network in Dublin but it would appear that in Belfast they managed to set up their network in less than a year.

When I examined the bike-stations I could see how they did it. Comparing the docking-stations in Belfast with those in Dublin or Brussels it is obvious that the quality of the stations in Belfast is not nearly as high. The Belfast network does not appear to be as well managed as they have not allowed for the arrival of surplus bikes at stations and during my visit I noticed bikes locked to street-furniture and trees because the users could not return the bikes on completion of their journeys.

I am not claiming that one approach is better than the other but I much prefer the scheme in operation in Dublin. I have a feeling that the docking-stations in Belfast [ bolt down standard units] are not as vandal-proof or as flexible as those in operation in Dublin.
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Author William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland

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