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Paris bike program a success

According to a recent article in the London Times, the bike rental program started in Paris on July 15 has been a great success:

Parisians appear to be enjoying their new found pedal power. In the first three weeks of the world’s biggest bike rental scheme, the 22kg (48lb) machines were borrowed 1.2 million times. Each is being used six times a day on average, usually for the short trips that are encouraged by the pricing scheme.

The article, entitled Parisians show their va va voom as city rolls out 'freedom' bike scheme, discusses some of the unintended consequences of the program.

In Paris there have been few teething troubles with the high-tech system that supplies the bikes for up to €1 per half-hour — but one is a result of residents using them to glide downhill to work and then taking public transport home, resulting in gluts of bikes at some low-level stands and shortages at higher altitude stations, such as Montmartre.

posted by Bruce Wright at 10:15 PM #

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