Decryption – Finding a cycle in a state of driving via this Parisian service is a challenge. The rise in subscription prices goes wrong.
Electric bikes in a unloaded battery station, bicycles with failing brakes, headlights that do not light up … The 534,000 Velib ‘subscribers and more occasional users can no longer count on their usual means of transport. Admittedly, we did not return to the dark period (2018-2019), where the largest system of bikes shared in the world, operated by Smovengo, was completely stopped. « But users complain of a deterioration of the service »notes Paris in saddle, an association of cyclists in the capital.
The cause of this new trip? « Of the 20,000 bikes usually available, 3000 had disappeared at the end of June, explains Sylvain Raifaud, president of Agemob, who brings together the more than 70 municipalities equipped with Velib ‘stations. Inevitably, those who stay are over -collicités. Only 20 % to 30 % comply with what is requested in the contract. » These bicycles out of the circuit were not evaporated …
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