Brixton’s new Santander cycles

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The docking station at Saltoun Road/Windrush Square – the original construction had to be moved a few metres nearer the road
The docking station at Saltoun Road/Windrush Square last night – the original construction had to be moved a few metres nearer the road

Brixton’s first cycle hire docking stations are due to open today (12 February).

A total of seven are opening in an expansion of the scheme to southern Lambeth, after a funding agreement between the council and Transport for London, announced last July.

The stations will hold 200 of the new Santander cycles built by the English company Pashley Cycles.

The new bikes have improved handling and comfort, with a gel saddle, lower frame and new gears as well as improved front and rear lighting.

Santander cycle opposite Brixton Tube station

The new docking stations in Lambeth are at:

cycle hire mapSaltoun Road/Windrush Square, Brixton

Ferndale Road, near the junction with Nursery Road, Brixton

St. John’s Crescent/Brixton Road/Max Roach Park, Brixton

Cranmer Road, Stockwell

Normandy Road, Stockwell

Wynne Road, Stockwell

Sidney Road, Stockwell.

Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite, Lambeth council cabinet member for housing and environment, and Will Norman, London walking and cycling commissioner, trying out the new bikes in Saltoun Road last year
Councillor Jennifer Brathwaite, Lambeth council cabinet member for housing and environment, and Will Norman, London walking and cycling commissioner, trying out the new bikes in Saltoun Road last year

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