{"id":23733,"date":"2013-07-17T10:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=23733"},"modified":"2013-07-26T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:34:38","slug":"velib-celebrates-6-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/velib-celebrates-6-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e9lib Celebrates 6-Year Anniversary (Infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/tag\/velib\" target=\"_blank\">V\u00e9lib<\/a>, Paris&#8217; groundbreaking <a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/category\/bike-sharing-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">bike-sharing program<\/a> that one could argue is responsible for the boom in 3rd-generation bike-sharing programs in major cities around the world (I would argue that), has now been around for 6 years. (Wow. Time flies&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the anniversary, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.velib.paris.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/infographie6ansDef.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the V\u00e9lib team created<\/a> the wonderful infographic below (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/bike-sharing.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/sixth-year-anniversary-of-velib-july.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bike-sharing Blog<\/a>). Check the whole thing out, but in text, here are two of the most fascinating facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top V\u00e9lib stations have a bike checked out every second!<\/li>\n<li>V\u00e9lib is the top bike-sharing program in terms of bikes per inhabitant (at least, among major cities) with 1 bike per 97 inhabitants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/velib-celebrates-6-year-anniversary\/velib-anniversary\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23734\" alt=\"velib anniversary\" src=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png\" width=\"1658\" height=\"7255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png 1658w, https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary-274x1200.png 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1658px) 100vw, 1658px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ll admit, I didn&#8217;t understand some of the French statements in there.<\/p>\n<p>For more bike-sharing fun, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;om=1&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=104227318304000014160.00043d80f9456b3416ced&amp;ll=43.580391,-42.890625&amp;spn=143.80149,154.6875&amp;z=1&amp;source=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bike-sharing World Map<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bikes.oobrien.com\/global.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real-time bike-sharing usage world map<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/top-bike-share-programs-in-an-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">this infographic on the world&#8217;s top bike-sharing programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00e9lib, Paris&#8217; groundbreaking bike-sharing program that one could argue is responsible for the boom in 3rd-generation bike-sharing programs in major cities around the world (I would argue that), has now been around for 6 years. (Wow. Time flies&#8230;.) To commemorate the anniversary, the V\u00e9lib team created the wonderful infographic below (h\/t The Bike-sharing Blog). Check &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/velib-celebrates-6-year-anniversary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V\u00e9lib Celebrates 6-Year Anniversary (Infographic)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[36,208,1340,1362,1355,212,1363],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png",1658,7255,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary-68x300.png",68,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png",768,3361,false],"large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary-274x1200.png",274,1200,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png",351,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/velib-anniversary.png",468,2048,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"V\u00e9lib, Paris&#8217; groundbreaking bike-sharing program that one could argue is responsible for the boom in 3rd-generation bike-sharing programs in major cities around the world (I would argue that), has now been around for 6 years. (Wow. Time flies&#8230;.) To commemorate the anniversary, the V\u00e9lib team created the wonderful infographic below (h\/t The Bike-sharing Blog). 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