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July 20, 2007

Paris Bicycle Sharing Program Launches With 10,600 Bikes

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Paris launched a new bicycle service, Velib, early this week with more than 10,600 bikes available at 750 stations all over the city, CBC reports. The program lets users swipe their credit card and take and return a bike. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe hopes Velib will cut car traffic in the city by 40 per cent by 2020.

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Paris launched a new bicycle service, Velib, early this week with more than 10,600 bikes available at 750 stations all over the city, CBC reports. The program lets users swipe their credit card and take and return a bike. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe hopes Velib will cut car traffic in the city by 40 per cent by 2020.

A year-long pass for the program costs $41.75, a one-day pass $1.42 and a weekly pass $7.15. On the day the program launched, 13,000 people had already bought annual passes.

Earlier this month, the New York Bike-Share Project made 20 bicycles available in SoHo. If successful, the project could be expanded to other areas of the city.

Last December, Toronto’s six-year-old bike sharing program ended because it ran out of money.

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Reader Comments

This is fabulous – we should all do this!!!

Go Paris!

Liz Anacleto | August 17th, 2007

I would be great to add my compact 4wheelbike into
velib system to accommodate the rest of population.
thanks

paul sasi | July 4th, 2008

I was just in Paris and saw lots of bikes in use. It’s a great idea, but one thing I couldn’t understand is whether or not you can rent from one location and drop off at another. If you can’t, then it’s not really useful for getting from point A to point B…

Johnathan | July 27th, 2010

Montreal has a similar bike rental program. Bikes can be picked up at one location and dropped off at another.Check out the “BIXI” website: http://montreal.bixi.com/home

Kevin | July 28th, 2010

I was in Denver last week attending the Tedx Mile High conference. I was amazed at the number of B-Cycle stations that where scattered around the city. I had the chance and I used the B-Cycle bike to take a ride to a totally cool pay-what-you-can restaurant called Same Cafe that is run by Libby Birky.

What a great experience both the bike and Same Cafe!

David | April 16th, 2011

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