City’s free bike service so popular adding 6,500 bikes

Yesterday the Shanghai Daily reported that planners for Shanghai’s Minhang district plan to add 6,500 bikes over the next 5 years due to the popularity of the existing 3,500 free bike service. Since the service started 10,000 residents have applied for the service.

The article also quoted Wu Zhongquan, a Minhang construction commission official as saying

the free-bike program is meant to solve the problem of the final trip home after alighting from public transport.

Traffic planners call this stage “the very last 3 kilometers” from homes or schools to traffic hubs.

Biking ‘fastest growing’ way to get around NYC

Newsday.com reports

Despite the dangers, biking is New York City’s “fastest growing mode of transportation,” says City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who herself bikes to work in lower Manhattan, about a mile from her Greenwich Village home.

The number of cyclists has jumped by 80 percent in the past decade — to 185,000 among the more than 8 million city denizens.

[SOURCE: Newsday - Biking 'fastest growing' way to get around NYC]

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