One year, 26 million trips, 3,000 losses: Velib’ in Paris!

A short brief about the free-access bikes made available by Paris City, in collaboration with JCDecaux advertising company.

Velib’ will celebrate next week its first anniversary and results seem to be far beyond expectations.

Every day, an average 110-120,000 bikes are rented, to ride an average 18 minutes, and Velib’ just past the 26 millionth rental.

As of today, the French capital city has 16,000 bikes available, in 1,200 stations. By the end of the summer, 20,600 bikes will be available and 1,451 stations will be in service. One negative point however, in one year, 3,000 bikes have been stolen and 3,000 more have been destructed… almost perfect!

References from the Transport Information Group

Here are related articles from the Transport Information Group, published in the last couple months.

In brief: Paris Metro subscribers will all go “Navigo”, January 14, 2008
London: lower and lower emissions areas to come, February 13, 2008
In brief: Paris have a dream… car-sharing, January 29, 2008

One Response to “ One year, 26 million trips, 3,000 losses: Velib’ in Paris! ”

Comments:

Roger says:
July 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am

Hello,

In Barcelona its peer is called: Bicing, it works very bad, the quality of service is around 0.

Have a look: http://www.bicing.com

There are a lot of daily complaints. But the best is the price just 24 € per year.

What about the prices in Paris or other EU capitals?

Cheers.

I am suscribed to your blog is very nice.

Speak soon,

Roger

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