Barclays Cycle Hire celebrates 3rd anniversary today

London’s Boris Bikes clock up 22 million hires

To celebrate today’s 3rd anniversary of the ‘Boris Bikes’ scheme – Barclays Cycle Hire – a batch of official statistics have been released, with a handy infographic.

Highlights include:

Total number of hires – 22,651,128

Average journey time at weekends – 27 minutes

Average journey times in the week – 18 minutes

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