Increase in use of public bike rentals despite reduced trips taken in Cork and Limerick

There was an increase in the usage of public bike rental schemes in Ireland’s regional cities in 2018 — despite a reduction in the number of trips taken in Cork and Limerick.

New figures published by the National Transport Authority (NTA), which oversees the three bike schemes which operate outside Dublin, reveal the rise was driven solely by dramatic growth in the number of people using the scheme in Galway. The combined number of rentals across the three cities last year totaled 338,358 — an annual increase of 0.5%.