Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
Yesterday evening bicing was broken all over Barcelona again. This seems to happen a lot after a strong rain. But El Pais mentions that the reason was the failure of their computer system, which also affected their website. This morning the problem was still apparent with a lot of the stations …
www.btvnoticies.cat This also seems to make it impossible to park them on the wrong side, which was needed for a while.
I haven't had this for a while, but today it happened again. I tried to use a bicycle in the morning (station #27), but the bike was broken so I placed it back into the anchor. Then the station started blinking yellow and blocked the bike. There was no functional bike left, so the station said so. …
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 …
For some reason bicing.com decided that it would a good idea to make it harder to get the current state of the stations. The “localizaciones” page is now on a SSL page and I think they use the session to make sure that it is someone browsing the page. A pity really. UPDATE: that was not …
El Bicing revisa las bicicletas y marca las que van bien | El Periódico de Catalunya | Barcelona: “Las bicicletas del Bicing lucen desde esta semana un nuevo distintivo. Se trata de unas marcas de color verde y amarillo que han sido colocadas en el guardabarros de la rueda posterior de gran …
The map has been displaying the same information about the stations since 22.07.2008 09:30. This means that services like statistings , the various SMS services and my updates are broken too. Update: jg says: The information provided on bicing.com has actually been erroneous since around 03.07.2008. …
Aniversari Bicing Originally uploaded by ericconca bicing has its first birthday party this Saturday the 29th March. They are having a party at Moll de la Marina at 12:00