Montreal Offers Most Ambitious Bike-Sharing Program
I will be calling Monreal, Quebec home in a couple of months and I couldn’t be more excited.
Montreal spent 15 million Canadian dollars (about $13 million) to develop and start a bike sharing program, although it is budgeted to ultimately become financially self-sufficient. Bixi is nothing if not ambitious.
Bixi
Here is a brief idea of how it works: A user takes a bike from one of the stations, pays at an automated pay station, and drops the bike off at any pay station in the network. The bike becomes another mode of urban transport unto itself, a practical, economical, ecological and healthy alternative to energy-guzzling vehicles.
Way to go Montreal, congrats! To read the full story, click HERE.
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