Cyclists clock up 5 million kilometres on public bikes

More than 2.3 million journeys have been taken on public bike schemes in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick in the first six months of 2016, amassing an estimated distance of almost five million kilometers on the rented bicycles.

Statistics released yesterday revealed that 2,344,193 journeys were taken from January to the end of June in the five cities, an average of 13,000 rentals a day.

The Dublin bike scheme saw 2,083,821 journeys taken between January and June, and 15,495,774 journeys since the scheme launched in 2009.