The Bike’s The Business – freight cycle couriers in Brighton “We have been successfully working with the council over the last three months, delivering their mail more quickly that their motor vehicles. We are looking for new business in Brighton and have set up accounts with graphic design companies and printers. We have received interest from florists, solictors, estate agents, the NHS and the Green Party. We are hoping that we will see a take up of our services throughout the beginning of this year [...]

Here is a nugget from the Sack Boris website, which quotes this article by Guardian columnist Dave Hill: The cycle hire scheme has cost London a lot more than Boris’s manifesto anticipated: “We will broker a deal with a private company to bring thousands of bikes to the capital at no cost to the taxpayer.” (page 32). The total budget for the scheme turned out to be £140 million and the Barclays contribution to it and the superhighways combined is to be just £25 million, [...]

by Bert Otten (via Off the back)