Over 5,000 people saddle up for public bike schemes

More than 5,000 people have signed up for public bike schemes in Cork, Galway and Limerick since they were launched last month, the National Transport Agency has revealed.

The scheme invites members of the public to pay €10 for an annual subscription to rent bikes from a number of stations across each city, similar to the successful scheme already operational in Dublin.

An NTA spokesperson said the remaining stations that have yet to be activated across the three cities will be operational within the next four to six weeks, with the exception of the station at Galway’s City Library, which is delayed by legal correspondence with a property business.