The hub will be on Huntly Street from 17 January until March 2025 and is part of a project to help people walk, wheel or cycle more for local journeys.
Find out more below or tell us what you think through the feedback survey.
📅 Hub events
Get a free cup of coffee from the hub on your morning walk, wheel or bike ride, whether you’re on your way to work, taking the kids to school, or you’re out and about for a morning stroll. First-come, first-served and please bring a reusable cup!
Get a free cup of coffee from the hub on your morning walk, wheel or bike ride, whether you’re on your way to work, taking the kids to school, or you’re out and about for a morning stroll. First-come, first-served and please bring a reusable cup!
Bring your bike along to the hub for a free Dr Bike winter bicycle check-up. Includes minor repairs such as brake adjustment and punctures. First-come, first-served, adults’ and kids’ bikes welcome.
Get a free cup of coffee from the hub on your morning walk, wheel or bike ride, whether you’re on your way to work, taking the kids to school, or you’re out and about for a morning stroll. First-come, first-served and please bring a reusable cup!
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Travel info
Travelling without a car in and around central Inverness
You can travel into central Inverness from many surrounding areas by bus or train. Use the Traveline Scotland journey planner to plan your route.
Bus travel is free with a National Entitlement Card (e.g. under 22s or over 60s) or from £4.90 for an Inverness zone 1 unlimited DayRider ticket (see the Stagecoach website for fares info).
You can walk or wheel to most places in central Inverness in around 10 minutes.
Most places in central Inverness can be reached by bike in less than 5 minutes. It also only takes around 15-20 minutes to cycle to nearby places like Raigmore Hospital, UHI Inverness and Inverness leisure centre. You can plan your cycling route using the CycleStreets website or app.
The Go-Hi app allows you to plan and pay for all your journeys around Inverness and the Highlands using just one app. This includes Hi-Bikes, bus, train, on demand buses and car clubs. Find out more and download the app.
Want to walk or cycle more often?
To build up your walking confidence, check out Partnerships for Wellbeing, which runs free and friendly group walks in and around Inverness several days per week.
We hope to run a free guided health walk or bike ride from this pop-up mobility hub while it is in Huntly Street – please look out for publicity or check the event listings above.
This pop-up mobility hub is a docking station for Inverness’ Hi-Bike cycle hire scheme, with docking stations all over Inverness.
To get a free Hi-Bike membership take a selfie with Huntly Street’s pop-up mobility hub and email it to info@hi-bike.co.uk. You will receive a reply with a code for a free one month membership. Offer open to those aged 16+, see Hi-Bike website for more information about the scheme.
You can also hire bikes for the day from Inverness Bike Hire, which is located inside Caledonian Gifts, next to the pop-up, or you can rent a Brompton folding bike from the locker outside Eastgate Shopping Centre.
BetterPoints is a rewards programme with a difference. Download the free BetterPoints app to log your sustainable travel journeys in and around Inverness, including walking, cycling, wheeling, bus and car club. Then redeem points for high street rewards or donate to charity.
Many journeys can be done by walking, cycling or public transport. But for occasional journeys that need to be done by car, why not consider renting one of Enterprise Car Club’s six vehicles in Inverness city centre? Car clubs offer the benefits of access to cars without the costs and hassle of owning one. You can hire a car by the hour, starting from £7.73 per hour, including all fuel costs and standard insurance. £2 per month membership fee – for more information visit Enterprise Car Club’s website.
Frequently asked questions
The project aims to work out how more people in Scotland can be supported to walk, wheel and cycle for short local journeys. The hub therefore needs to be near where people live, work or visit, or a combination of these things.
The site at Huntly Street was chosen after an assessment process and site visit that looked at things like:
- Existing sustainable transport options (e.g. Hi-Bike, bus, cycling, walking, car club)
- Proximity to amenities (e.g. shops, businesses, parks and schools)
- Potential for more people to take journeys by public transport or walking or cycling
- Site gradient, pavement height etc.
The Huntly Street location scored highly in this assessment as it is on the riverside walking and cycling route into and out of central Inverness.
No. The funding for the project comes from Paths for All’s Smarter Choices, Smarter Places initiative, which is a grant fund of Transport Scotland. The aim of the funding is to make it easier for more people in Scotland to walk, wheel or cycle for short, local journeys. HITRANS has partnered with CoMoUK on the project as it aligns with both HITRANS’ Regional Transport Strategy. HITRANS and the council have given some staff time to support the project, but have not provided any funding.
The hub will be in the area between Friday 17 January and the week of 17 February 2025. It will then be moved to another area of Inverness and the parking space will revert to its usual function.
We are testing different areas of Inverness to see what works well and what does not to help people to walk, wheel and cycle more, and where there might be demand for future Hi-Bike stations. Keeping pop-ups short means that we can try different types of location and gives more people the benefit of having the pop-up in their area.
We inform councillors and community councils in advance of the mobility hub being installed.
We deliver information flyers to nearby households and businesses before the hub is installed and will deliver update information flyers during the pop-up.
We will run a survey on the hub throughout the duration of the pop-up, which you can access at: LINK COMING SOON.
The project aims to work out how more Scots can be supported to walk, wheel and cycle for short local journeys. The hub therefore needs to be near where people live, work or visit. This bay has been chosen as we were looking for a location along Huntly Street and our surveys have indicated that these parking bays are rarely, if ever, at full capacity in off-season.
The space will revert to a resident's parking bay after the pop-up ends. Where applicable, we pay for and obtain the relevant permit from the council to occupy the space.
The hub features:
- Accessible seating to allow those with mobility needs (or anyone else) to rest while walking
- Bike repair stand and pump
- Pop-up nextbike docking station (with free £10 nextbike credit available to local residents – please email scotland@como.org.uk if you would like to receive a voucher)
- Colourful planting and greenery
- Free walking and cycling events for the community while the hub is in the area
This is our tenth pop-up across Scotland and none so far have resulted in any major issues relating to antisocial behaviour or littering for residents. However, we will respond to any issues raised (see below for how to contact us) and our team will check on the hub regularly.
Any events held at the hub will be during the day time and very occasional. Footfall should not be more than would be expected for a location that is a well-used walking and cycling route. Longer events will be held at a nearby venue. Please see the events section of the web page to view more details about where events are being held.
If you have an urgent concern to report about the hub, you can email scotland@como.org.uk or call 07553 355519 between Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm.
If you would like to share your opinion on the hub, positive, negative or neutral, you can fill in our survey, which can be accessed at LINK COMING SOON. By filling in the survey, you can also be entered into a prize drawer to win a £25 online shopping voucher.
