If you’re in Paris, don’t even think about buying a bike. Rent one for 8 euro cents a day.
Paris City Hall has just released the pricing of their eagerly anticipated bicycle rental plan. Starting this summer, you can rent a bike for one euro a day or five euros a week. But the best deal is the annual subscription: 365 days for just 29 euros, including 24 hour maintenance and service.
Before the summer 14,100 bikes will be available; by the end of this year there should be 20,600. I’m sure at these rental prices they will have to add another 100,000 very soon.
The bikes have also a name: Velib’, a cross between the French words velo and liberte. The logo was probably created by the same designer who came up with the logo for the 2012 Olympic bid. But that was an event nobody wants to remember in Paris.
Previously on Frogsmoke: Paris follows Dutch ‘free-bike’ initiative – 40 years later
The bicycle in France is a phenomenon. In Lyon, second city in France, there is now less transportation done by cars than by any other mean… since 1998. If you read french, have a look at my blog about the bicycle as a urban transport mode: http://www.mavilleavelo.com
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