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London launches bike sharing scheme

Six thousand matching bicycles are about hit the streets of London as the city launches its ambitious public bike sharing scheme.
The initiative will allow commuters and tourists to take bikes from 400 docking stations, spaced at 300 yard intervals, for short trips around central London.
For an access fee of £1 ($1.53) a day or £45 ($68) a year, cyclists will be able to use the bikes for free for the first thirty minutes, with a increasing fee for longer periods.
Users can return for further free half hours as often as they want within a day.
The launch is a major step forward in London Mayor, Boris Johnson's ambition to increase cycling in the city by 400 percent between the years 2000 and 2025.
An estimated 500,000 journeys a day are already made by bike in the British capital.
"This will change London forever," says Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor's Transport Advisor.
"We want these bikes to become icons of London just like red buses and black taxis.
We think London will be proud of these bikes, giving everyone an opportunity to use the cleanest, greenest form of transportation.
Ranger said the bikes had been designed to cover 60,000 miles over their 15-year lifetime, spending 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on the streets in come rain or come shine.
He also said a fleet of electric vehicles would re-distribute bikes if they ended up with too many at popular drop-off spots.
In Paris, bikes famously gather at docking stations at the bottom of hills, as no-one wanted to cycle them back up.

[ 원문 : http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-30/world/london.bike.share.launch_1_bikes-scheme-buses-and-black-taxis?_s=PM:WORLD ]

Words and sentence on air
* matching : 동일한.
* commuter : 통근자.
* space : (공간적인) 간격을 두다.
* interval : (시간적인) 간격.
* a fleet of : 회사가 소유하고 있는 차량들.
* re-distribute : 재분배하다.
* drop-off : 인계하는
   drop-off spot : 보관지점

* hit the street : 거리를 누비다.
   hit the road : 가버려~
   hit the gim : 운동하러 가다.
   hit the book : 공부하다.
   hit the sack : 자러가다.
* sharing scheme : 공유계획
* access fee : 사용료.
* 2011년 : two thousand eleven / twenty eleven
* by 숫자 : 숫자만큼~ 하다.
* come rain or come shine : 어떤 날씨든 상관없이.