30 minute charge + 18%
penalties: +16%
A knee-jerk analysis would say yes – you are exchanging a CO2 free bike for gas guzzler – therefore, it has be greener from a carbon emissions point of view. However, based on the city government’s numbers, few Bicing members are actually switching their car for a bicycle – in most cases they would of been just taking other forms of public transportation or walking, which means negligible carbon savings.
Interesting stuff in the 'upcoming section of the Academic Journal Transport Policy. A Australian study found qualitative evidence for the fact that the public perspective of cycling can be an important barrier or facilitator on the road towards more urban cycling in cities.and
One example is Barcelona, where due to the Bicing plan, suddenly massive amounts of cycling Catalonians were on the streets, reinforcing the claim for more and safer infrastructure (even the car lobby wanted the critical mass of cyclists of their roads!).
The municipality of Barcelona is confirming their requests for sanction withdrawal of driving license points for cyclists offenders. The mayor has denied the appeal of Cristina Cuní, Bicing user who drove against the traffic direction on a street near Palau Reial, and asked that they not be penalized in this way because she still has no driver's license. The municipality does not accept the request of the young to reconsider the high financial penalty of 500 Euro.
Consider the statistics. While in 2009, Barcelona added 10% more kilometers to its bike paths, trips by bike dropped 5.6% percent from 2008's "high" of 1.39 to just above 1%.
Barcelona’s popular Bicing service was recently enhanced by the addition of an iPhone app, which uses GPS to pinpoint the user’s location and help them find a convenient bike station for pick-up or drop-off, saving time on both ends. The app also displays Google Maps with interactive navigation. In the first two months alone, the program registered over 30,000 users.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations community."
"This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed," Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.
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"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,"
Controls on Passeig de Sant Joan on Tuesday |
As a result of the improvements, complaints and claims have fallen by 53%, with an average of 12.8 per 10,000 uses. Calls received in the service number to the subscriber have fallen by 32%. Now receive an average 29 707 per month and in 2009 was 43 623.They also mention that usage and theft has fallen, but the overall costs have increased.
At £6 for two hours, Boris hire bikes are costliest in Europe Ross Lydall 23.07.10 Sponsored links Critics today raised concerns about the high cost of hiring a bike under the central London scheme being introduced by Boris Johnson.As in Barcelona the critics come out of the woodwork. As with house prices, groceries and other living costs you can't compare the prices. £45 seems a lot but is still cheap if you compare it to Tube or bus prices. What people also tend to forget: however rubbish a bike sharing service is, it is always better than not having it.
Bike Week is getting ready to offer, from 10 to 16 May, a whole host of free, bike-related activities. This year's novelty is that you'll be able to follow the event through Twitter, which shows just what a big part bikes have been playing on social networks.
The Councillor insisted that Bicing marked a before and an after in the way bikes are used, as it has created "a constant image of this form of transport and encouraged people to get out on their bikes", to the point where 65% of journeys are now made on private bikes and 35% on Bicing bikes.More on bcn.es