London's best-known tourist attractions have been excluded from Boris Johnson's new bike hire scheme.
None of the 400 “docking stations”, from where bikes are hired or returned, are being built within 15 minutes' walk of Buckingham Palace, beside St Paul's Cathedral or in Trafalgar Square or Leicester Square. Nor are there any alongside Tate Modern or the London Eye.
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