YOU decide.

Dublin Bikes at Grand Canal (top) and Wilton Place this morning.

Thanks Dee Roberts and Jennifer Ryan

Ah now.

Eleanor Rosney writes:

Feeling a mixture of emotions right now. Annoyed by this but also inspired by the ingenuity of it.

 FINALLY.

Work to treble the number of bikes from 500 to 1,500, and more than double the number of stands where they can accessed from 44 to 100, will begin before the end of the year, Dublin City Council has said.

The new bike stations will initially be installed east of the current stations towards the Docklands, and west to Heuston Station.

The provisions of the 56 new stations and 1,000 bikes will be the first phase of a five-year expansion plan to increase the number of bikes to 5,000 and the number of bike stations to approximately 300.

Dublin Bike Hire Scheme To Treble In Size (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Thrilled to announce that negotiations on the expansion of Dublinbikes has started with JC Decaux. Hope to have 1000 new bikes by Xmas

— Cllr Andrew Montague (@MayorMontague) June 22, 2012

Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins

Dermot Daly(@dermdaly) writes:

When you update your credit card on Dublin Bikes website you get this:

Then, they send you confirmation via e-mail.  Which looks like this:

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Or are we in the middle of a civic bike bubble?

What’s the Secret Of Dublin Bike Scheme’s Success? (Guardian)