Bicing station No. 93 - Barcelona, Spain
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Bicing station near near the Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona. Bicing is a bicycle sharing system inaugurated here in 2007.
Waymark Code: WMEA32
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 04/25/2012
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Bicing is the name of a 'community bicycle program' in Barcelona inaugurated on March 22, 2007, similar to the Vélô service in Toulouse, Vélo'v in Lyon and Vélib' in Paris, using the same bicycles and stations as used in Stockholm, Oslo, and Zaragoza.
To use the system you must become a member. Subscription to the system is possible through the Bicing website (www.bicing.com), or through visiting the service office. The provision of a credit card number is necessary. It takes ten days to receive your card.
The Bicing member cards are only sent to addresses in Catalonia in an attempt to prevent tourists from using the system. This limitation was imposed upon the City Council by pre-existing local bike hire companies (grouped under Bicitours) that feared what they called illicit competition from the Bicing system. Bicitours and City Council agreed as well in enforcing a user block of ten minutes to change bikes (that is, when docking a bike, the user is blocked for ten minutes before being able to leave with another bike). As a result tourists are barred from using what is officially denominated a "public transport system" - a bit like barring tourists from using the metro or buses.
Address:
GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALENS
Barcelona
Spain
Fees:
Year card: 37 euro
The first 30 minutes with no extra cost, with subsequent half hour blocks (up to 2 hours) costing 0.50 € each.
Use of a bicycle for more than 2 hours at a time is discouraged with a penalty rate of 3 € per hour, but also with the possibility of having your membership cancelled after a certain number of uses in excess of 2 hours.
Hours of Operation:
24/24
Type of Bicycle rental: Bike sharing system
Type of Bicycle sharing system (BSS): Membership
Rentals or BSS website: [Web Link]
Can tourists use the bicycles of BSS?: no
Other rentals available: Not listed
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