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Too tired to climb the hill? Velib gives you fifteen additional minutes on your bike rental

Velib, the Paris public bike rental service is a success, but a unique problem has emerged: users are dropping more bicycles in lower neighborhoods than riding them up. In order to give incentives for the cyclists to drop bikes in "high" stations, the company will give you 15 additional minutes to drop the 22 kg bike off in "high" neighborhoods such as Belleville or Montmartre. Velib has already more than 183,000 users, 1,451 stations available and 20,000 bicycles. If you're a really fit biker, you can try to participate in the Velibmontant ... Read more →

Happy birthday! Bicing celebrates anniversary Xavier Navarro

Bicing, Barcelona's public rental service, is celebrating its first anniversary. Despite a number of shortcomings and critics, the Catalan capital has almost fully implemented the system with 286 ...

Too tired to climb the hill? Velib gives you fifteen additional minutes on your bike rental 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Happy birthday! Bicing celebrates anniversary 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Bicing, Barcelona's public rental service, is celebrating its first anniversary. Despite a number of shortcomings and critics, the Catalan capital has almost fully implemented the system with 286 stations and 4,000 bicycles for 130,000 registered users. The plans aren't stopping here. The city will ...

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