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Boris bike gets The Engineer test

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Good to see and not before time! Even Lyon in France has had a similar system in place for years. I'd definitely use one in preference to the tube when I visit London next. As far as supporting local industry, I completely agree with Anonymous at 2:49pm. Government ought to be at least a little biased, if not have an outright duty to reinvest such funds back into the local economy - even if that meant negotiating the bikes and control system were made under licence in the UK. One of the secondary effects of sourcing from abroad when we have capable engineers on our doorstep is, ultimately, (and rather simplistically) less capable engineers on our doorstep. That can only be a bad situation for the long term health of UK PLC. So, who's up for a bit of night racing then? At least that would be completely fair ;-)

Posted date

30 Jul 2010

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3:04 pm

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