The wheel deal: Gold Coast to get new e-bikes to replace share system

Wednesday December 09, 2020

New ‘pedal-assist’ electric share bikes will swarm Gold Coast streets this summer, with the dockless electric bikes replacing the city’s old share bike scheme.

The Gold Coast will replace its Mobile shared service with new Lime e-bikes. (Photo: supplied)

The return of as many as 1500 brightly coloured share bikes to the Gold Coast comes after Australia’s only electric share bike scheme controversially returned to Sydney streets in October after a coronavirus-induced hiatus, and Brisbane has opted to ditch its decade-old CityCycle share bikes for e-bikes.

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