Bike sharing is all the go these days.  It was tried in London with the result that bikes were strewn across the pavements, and dumped by the bike companies, and dumped in the Thames by the bike riders.  Cost 60M pounds apparently.

Not so Oxford which was the first UK city to trial the scheme.  They still get dumped in the river, but not in such enormous numbers (why would you?)

I wanted to try one, and signed up for the ap, but it said my phone didn’t have enough battery to complete the ride, so I couldn’t.  Ah well.