Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
“El ‘bicing’ ha reducido un 30% las ventas de bicicletas” - Expansión.com Expansion.com has an interview with Cahuas Escuder Pere who is one of the Probike owners: Q: What do you think the ‘bicing’? A: From the social point of view is an excellent idea to remove your hat, because there …
They have some new statistics: Nº d'usos registrats al servei : 965.094.Nº d'abonats: 184.822.Percentatge d'usuaris que renoven: 98,07%Distància recorreguda: 2,6 milions de quilòmetres.They also mention the three new vans which do quick repairs on the bicycles during the day, this should fix some of …
The Bike-sharing Blog: Paris’ Woes of Theft and Vandalism: “In a year and a half of operation, 7,800 bicycles have disappeared from Paris’ highly successful bike-sharing program as reported by LeParisien. On top of that, another 11,600 have been vandalized. To cope with this grave …
Bicing Barcelona Sucks! Originally uploaded by tyldurd
Another bicing iPhone app: iBicis Barcelona: “Here it comes the best application for one of the most popular public transport services in Barcelona: Bicing, the new unexpensive and sustainable public transport, with more than 200,000 users. Download iBicis Barcelona and you’ll never go …
Matthew Yglesias » Barcelona Bicycle Policy: “It occurs to me every time I see a bike share service in another city that it would do a lot to extend the utility of these things if there were some kind of reciprocity agreement in place between different bike sharing cities. I’m a SmartBikeDC …
Bike Snob NYC: Trendcycles: Evolution or Reiteration?: “But rest assured, condom grips are a trend. In fact, it’s an international trend. Another commenter from Barcelona (that’s in Spain) points out that a company indeed markets handlebar condoms to protect riders who use their …
Fine: 217.50€ - GoloBlog: “I think it’s a good idea to check your Bicing.com user stats from time to time. Just to check that you didn’t do anything wrong” Interesting that the duration is 1 minute. I also had some errors in my usage. One day I managed to use the bike for 300 hours and …
Los ciclistas sufrieron 492 accidentes en Barcelona en 2008, un 11,3% más This is with an increase of 13% in bicycle usage. 124 of the bicycle accidents were related to bicing. The city council is planning to build more cycle lanes like in C/Urgell to make cyclist feel safer.