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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Bicycling Barcelona

Bicing Barcelona
Cycling in the Gothic Quarter
Cycling Along the Med
How does a city of over 3 million people become a great place to cycle in? In Barcelona it started with their bike share program called Bicing.  Similar to many other community bicycle programs, such as the Velib in Paris, there are over 6000 bikes and 400 stations to either pick up or drop off a bike. The normal usage time is under 30 minutes as the bikes are meant to be used for commuting. To use the program you must have an address in Barcelona and you pay an annual fee of around 35 EUROS. While the Bicing program is not available for use by tourists there are plenty of bike rental companies in the city which rent bikes for  very reasonable rates.. Designated bike lanes along with a high tolerance for cycling/car interface makes it easy and fun to cycle around this beautiful Mediterranean city.  To read more about the Bicing program go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona







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