The city of Paris has 370 km of cycle paths. The service called Vélib ', the self-service bicycle, was launched today in Paris. 750 stations spread across the capital, ten of which around each station offer 10 bicycles. Gwenaëlle Joffre, communications manager at the Paris city hall who oversees the project, stressed: "We hope that car use will decrease and that people will choose to take a bicycle or the bus."
Jérôme Fenez from the Vélocité association! which militates for an increased use of the bicycle in the city indicated: "Numerically, one will considerably increase the place of the bicycle in the city. At the end of 2007, the number of bicycles and stations should be doubled. But 10 bicycles, it is 600 10 possible accidents Remember the fatal collision that occurred last week near Place de la République where a 600-year-old cyclist was run over by a 25-tonne bike. in place. I have the impression that the people who design the bicycle lanes are not users themselves. " The association "Better move by bicycle" (MDB), founded in 15 and bringing together 1974 members, presents itself as the largest association of urban cyclists in France: it is curious "about the evolution of cycling in Paris with the launch By throwing around 600 more cyclists into the streets, this will bring out the gaps in terms of development and communication. "
Self-service biking already exists in Lyon and others are in the pipeline, such as Aix-en-Provence and Mulhouse. According to the National Cycle Professions Council, France is the 4th country in the world for bicycle consumption (5,7 bikes per 100 inhabitants) after Japan, the Netherlands and the United States. In 2006, the French bought more than 3,5 million cycles.
Find all the information on the official Vélib 'website: www.velib.paris.fr
Source: http://ecologie.caradisiac.com/Velib-c- ... -route-732
ps: heard on JT that the annual cost of maintenance per bike was ... € 2500 !!
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