Bikeable Communities » Share Programs http://bikeablecommunities.org A Non-Profit Bicycle Advocacy Organization Tue, 15 May 2012 18:11:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 50K.!.Hangzhou Bike Share Program http://bikeablecommunities.org/2011/04/02/hangzhou-bike-share-program/ http://bikeablecommunities.org/2011/04/02/hangzhou-bike-share-program/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:54:40 +0000 Luciano http://bikeablecommunities.org/?p=201 [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

This review came from STC (Promoting the Bike Life in Beijing):

Hangzhou (Google-Maps)  has a fantastic bike share program. It is now the largest bike share program in the world with some 50,000 bikes available throughout the city. The system eclipses the velib system in Paris which has 20,000 bikes. Not bad for a Chinese city and a city with a population of only 2 million in the urban core.

Lets hope that other Chinese cities follow the lead. There has been a lot of talk by Beijing’s leaders about introducing a program here but very little action so far. Hopefully we see some more this year.

This report on the Hangzhou bike program was by Melissa Chan from Al Jezeera.

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