Paris, the land of food and art and wine lovers will soon wake up to find itself a love land for environment-conscious people and bikers. The day after Bastille Day, i.e. on July 15, Paris will be flooded with thousands of low-cost rental bikes!
Yes, and that too, at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations located across the city. This program to cut traffic is a real ambitious one. It also ventures to reduce pollution as well as improve parking, enhancing the city’s image as — a greener, quieter and more importantly a more relaxed place, enough to attract more tourists.
With this year ending, there should be 20,600 bikes at 1,450 stations, according to organizers and city officials. It is that, the city will have about one station every 250 yards across the entire city.
The deputy mayor of the city, Jean-Louis Touraine said,
It has completely transformed the landscape of Lyon — everywhere you see people on the bikes. (The program was meant) not just to modify the equilibrium between the modes of transportation and reduce air pollution, but also to modify the image of the city and to have a city where humans occupy a larger space.
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