whilst the system bedded in. Now you can hire a bike with a credit card. And you don't need a helmet. And of the hundreds of thousands of trips made only a couple of injuries to cycle hire users, a no helmet needed. It can work but you need enough docking stations, a system to relocate bikes, a good payment setup and no bizarre helmet law. I have to defend the scheme in one sense -- if you have a smartphone and a credit card (Visa or Mastercard) you can sign up on the spot and start using it. As for the Fishman paper -- I have read it. Two out of the three authors are from CARRS-Q so they are not going to recommend even a partial exemption for CityCycle or for footpaths/cyclepaths (the NT way). Section 3.1 of the paper is about the sign-up process. "Citycycle members revealed that a crucial element was 'spontaneity' -- the ability to use the bike on impulse, without the need to register details manually, either over the phone or online". I don't know how the go card integration work is going -- when I've accidentally swiped my go card over the reader instead of the CityCycle card it tells me "your express card needs to be validated" so there is probably not much work to do. For go cards to work, realistically, they would need to be associated with a credit card as the fee is $330 for not returning the bike.