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, at 16:00:31 on Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Recliner
remarked:
From
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...et-to-ditch-bo
ris-bike-sponsorship

Barclays is preparing to ditch its controversial sponsorship deal for Boris
Johnson's flagship bicycle hire scheme, delivering only half the £50m the
London mayor had claimed the bank would pay.

Some stuff I looked up last month, and posted elsewhe

[Barclays are sponsoring the London scheme to the tune of £50m, the
whole scheme cost £225m, taxpayers are subsidising it £11m a year
(equivalent to almost £300 per annum per registered user), and each bike
has cost £1400 to deploy. It's also missing its targets and Serco was
recently penalised £2.6m for poor operational performance.]
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Roland Perry