On your bike

MORE than two million trips have been taken using rented bicycles in the capital.

Some 2.3 million journeys have been taken on bikes leased from Dublin City Council’s “dublinbikes” scheme since its launch in September 2009.

By August 2010, some one million miles had been clocked up. But the pace of bike rentals picked up and the two million mike mark was reached on May 12 when a cyclist took a seven-minute journey from Parnell Square North to Smithfield North.