Unfortunately, Queensland Labor, no longer in power, has no vision on the scheme and politicians such as Milton Dick and Annastacia Palaszczuk have looked for ways to make the scheme fail instead of making constructive suggestions. See http://chickensaltforthesoul.wordpress.c\\... for more context on that. Section 3.2 is about helmets. After reading a professor of public health, Chris Del Mar, say it was "highly unlikely someone would catch nits" from a shared helmet, I'm not discouraged by this, but many people are. "Short of rescinding mandatory helmet legislation, participants were unable to suggest innovative methods of reducing this barrier to CityCycle use." Apparently the participants couldn't think of the partial exemptions suggested above. They misspelled "publicly" as "publically" which is pretty sloppy for an academic article. Also, I found it curious that none of them mentioned the classic problem with the helmets -- perhaps no one in their CityCycle focus group was a "dual-use" commuter, i.e. for home-to-work and fun. The classic problem is if you have a helmet you're looking for a bike without one to keep the basket free for your hat/bag, and if you don't have one you're looking for a bike with one, and you can't always find one. Then at the end of the trip you might forget to reattach it properly -- you're not waiting two minutes to do it properly, you're probably just going to throw it in the basket at the end and go, especially if you've had to hunt for a station with