abstract:Barclays Cycle Hire (BCH) is a public bicycle sharing scheme in London, in the UK. The scheme's bicycles are popularly known as 'Boris Bikes', after Boris Johnson, who was the Mayor of London when the scheme was launched on 30 July 2010.
"The speed of developmentandsystemintegrationneeded to meetthe required launch dateforBarclaysCycleHire drove most of the challenges in the ITfield," he says.
"Serious incidents involving BarclaysCycleHire bikes are thankfully extremely rare and we will assist the Metropolitan Police and the local highway authority with their investigation into this incident, " said a TfL spokesman.