TFI Bikes in Cork - A Success Story?
If you have a look at Irish news sites, or indeed newspapers, you’ll be hard pressed to find any positive news stories regarding Ireland’s National Transport Authority, the country’s official public transport body, or its customer-facing brand, Transport for Ireland (TFI). Likely, all you’ll find is stories about overcrowded vehicles, unreliable services, and projects that are behind schedule and over budget. So far, so normal for Irish government bodies. However, when you look more closely, you’ll find the occasional bright spot in all of this drudgery. One of these bright spots is TFI Bikes, the agency’s public bike share system in Cork, Galway, Limerick and, most recently, Waterford. Now, this system hasn’t been without controversy, from serious f unding shortfalls and lawsuits in its Coke Zero Bikes days to the fact that local councils in Galway and Limerick seem to be doing their level best to sabotage the very existence of the system within their cities. However, as far as Cork ...