Barcelona’s Bike Sharing Program Celebrates its 2-Year Anniversary With Its 186,000 Users
As you could read in our first post about Barcelona’s bike sharing system written in May 2007, Bicing started with a bang: 30,000 subscribers in the first 2 months; 15 stations and 200 bicycles to start with. Since then, it has been forced to expand and grow rapidly and now counts 400 stations and 6,000 bikes for 186,000 subscribers. Read on for more impressive numbers and figures.
9% of the citizens are Bicing-users
Over the two years, it has had ups and downs but managed to establish itself as an additional form of public transport. More and more red and white bikes circulate the streets of the Catalan capital, offering an eco-friendly, healthy and cheap alternative to taxis, metro and buses or even the private car. The number of users has been growing without interruption since it launched on March 22nd in 2007, which demanded a rapid reaction so that the system wouldn’t collapse. On a daily bases, Bicing counts 35,000 bike journeys and since February 2009, has 186,000 users, which represent 9% of the city’s population.
Barcelona slowly becomes bike-friendly
It hasn’t been left unnoticed that since the Bicing was set up in Barcelona, the city has undergone a few changes. The number of private bikes has definitely also increased in the last few years, and the city council has started to expand the bike lanes and bicycle parking. The Bicing bikes have also been improved by making the parking more theft-proof, adding adequate front and back lights that work with dynamos, more robust bells and safer breaks.
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