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February 07, 2007
Self-Service Bikes
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, has made transforming the capital's transportation system one of his top priorities. He's already made headlines (and angered more than a few French drivers) by setting up BRT lines throughout the city and building new tramway lines.
The Streets Blog now reports that City Hall has signed an agreement with advertising firm JC Decaux to provide more than 20,000 self-service bicycles around the city. Customers will use swipe-cards to rent them for trips around the capital, to deposit them back later at any of the 1,451 stations planned.
You can find more details and pictures of a similar program already in place in Lyon here.
Posted by jessehudson at February 7, 2007 09:43 AM
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