{"id":1234,"date":"2012-03-29T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T11:45:55","slug":"cycle-hire-scheme-announced-for-manchesters-piccadilly-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/cycle-hire-scheme-announced-for-manchesters-piccadilly-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle hire scheme announced for Manchester&#8217;s Piccadilly Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1235\" title=\"bike-hire-manchester\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bike-hire-manchester-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>A new cycle hire scheme has been announced for Manchester\u2019s Piccadilly Station which will allow commuters to hire Brompton folding bikes for onward travel from just \u00a34 a day.<\/p>\n<p>The new bicycle hire scheme is a joint venture between Virgin Trains and Brompton Dock Ltd and will be officially launched on April 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 2012. There are no restrictions on how long a bike can be hired for, once a users signs up to use the scheme online they can rent a hand built British folding bike from the new docking stations for anything from a couple of hours, a day, week, month or even a year.<\/p>\n<p>All users wishing to take advantage of the new cycle scheme must register their details online. Once they\u2019ve set up membership, commuters are able to hire Brompton bikes at a cost of \u00a34 a day, while weekly hire will set you back \u00a315 and a month\u2019s worth of bike hire will cost \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>To help facilitate the new bike rental system at Manchester Piccadilly, there are no restrictions on the times bikes can be transported on train services so even those wishing to carry a folding bike on a peak hour train can do so.<\/p>\n<p>Brompton Bikes and Virgin Trains say the new service offers an innovative and eco-friendly \u201cend to end\u201d journey solution for passengers travelling through Manchester Piccadilly station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cycle hire scheme has been announced for Manchester\u2019s Piccadilly Station which will allow commuters to hire Brompton folding bikes for onward travel from just \u00a34 a day. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-hire-rental-news","category-transport-hire"],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}