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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Novel bike rental scheme
The city of Lyon, France, is encouraging more of their citizens to take short urban trips by bicycle. Users sign up for a bike rental program by submitting their credit card number and placing a €150 deposit and pay only €1/hour. If the rental period is less than 30 minutes, which is usually the case, it's free: In just three months, the program has signed up 15,000 subscribers who take 4,000 trips a day and travel over 24,800 miles a week on 2,000 public bikes at 150 bike stations.The program is called Velo Grande (in French). There's an article in Wired about the program that's in English.
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