And now over to Paris and Vélib with its extremely successful bike-share program (so much so that in June 2014 they launched “Les P’tit Velib” for children [aged 2-8]). blog.velib.paris.fr/ptit-velib/ Philippe Crist, researcher and advisor for the International Transport Forum (ITF) is one of the world’s most prestigious think-tanks on active mobility. He sums up so much of what Velib, and indeed all the bike share schemes, is about. I think it’s hard to imagine a city with only cyclists. We have to think about integrating Public Transport and Cycling. Linking the two is crucial for success, because cycling can boost Public Transport. Cycling allows you to increase the range of Public Transport. In Paris, for example, many people take the suburban train to the city center and then continue on a Velib’, one of the city’s shared bicycle schemes. The success of Velib is cited here by its financers, JCDecaux, having launched their equally successful bike-share scheme in Vienna in 2003 and in the French city of Lyon in 2005 with Velov. Velib was launched the day after Bastille day in 2007 and since then over 200 million bike rentals have been recorded (with between 100,000 and 150,000 rentals every day). In contrast, eight fatalities on Velibs have been recorded between 2007-12. jcdecaux/en/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2014/Parisian-Ve-lib-achieves-over-200-million-rentals Another essential aspect of Velib was to encourage people to use bikes instead of cars to help reduce the particularly polluted city during the mild winter. Velib bikes were free for one/two days in an effort to encourage their use and thereby decrease the heavily polluted city. \\ecf/news/paris-to-avoid-pollution-ride-a-free-velib/
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:59:12 +0000
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