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Paris to Roll Out Free Bicycles
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by clorenz1 | January 30, 2007 at 10:41 am
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The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.Joining other European cities like the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, Paris wants to make thousands of bikes available for free to commuters, strollers and tourists — in part to help cut down on pollution.
By the end of the year JCDecaux has undertaken to set up 1451 stations, where customers can use swipe-cards to rent some 20,600 cycles for journeys around the capital. The bikes can be deposited at any station, and then picked up by new users.
Some 1000 stations - with 14,100 bikes - are supposed to be in place by the start of the summer tourist season.
A similar system has been run by JCDecaux since 2005 in the southeastern city of Lyon, where city authorities have hailed it as a major success in the campaign to reduce motor transport.
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at 06:29 on January 31st, 2007
Many thanks for this posting. As a NowPublic editor, I’ve flagged your item so that it will appear in our news assignment box
at 18:07 on January 31st, 2007
Has there been any increase in hospitalisations of people hit by cars while riding? Hate to think how I would have managed in the Paris traffic last summer while riding a bike! It will also be interesting to learn of the financial impact on the Metro.
Excellent post - keep em coming
at 14:00 on March 10th, 2007
here you'll find some stats, but from Pris itself...(2R is 2 wheels___title of curve is " personal injury in Paris"_vélo is bicycle, 4roues is automobile, piéton is pedestrian)
it has been done also in some town in France...but sometimes with some problem of steal...i think some RFID could be in (?)...
The politic is to evacuate all cars from the old center. And a tramway has been opened recently. The road around (the peripheric) gets on blocking any direct exchange with the suburb.
concerning the metro, it could have small impact, because for their movements, parisians are all paying their travel in advance (see "carte orange"..the RATP (metro) and SNCF(french railway company) )...