{"id":4201,"date":"2009-11-05T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:17:13","slug":"5-paris-france-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/5-paris-france-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 Paris, France: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From bicycle lovers to lovers on bikes, bike art to art on bikes, the largest bicycle sharing program in the world to some of the smallest bikers, enjoy this bicycle city photo tour of Paris, France!<\/h3>\n

Paris doesn’t have a long history as one of the best bicycle cities, but with the introduction of the largest bicycle sharing program in the world, bicycling in Paris has boomed and the city is becoming commonly associated with the bicycle now. Its whole culture is changing due to the bicycle’s increasing relevance in the city’s daily life.
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Paris is just ahead of #6 Groningen (the Netherlands)<\/a>, #7 Berlin (Germany)<\/a>, #8 Barcelona (Spain)<\/a>, #9 Bogota (Columbia)<\/a>, and #10 Basel (Switzerland)<\/a> on this great bicycle cities photo tours list.<\/p>\n

For a review of some of the environmental reasons why this bicycle photo tour is on EcoWorldly<\/a> (as well as some health and wellness reasons), read the intro to the Barcelona bicycle city photo tour<\/a>. As a taster, Bill Strickland<\/a><\/a> states:<\/p>\n

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For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Explore the City of Love<\/strong>‘s bicycle photos and bike culture in the pictures below and on the following pages!<\/p>\n

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Image Credit 1: tibchris via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 3: Panoramas via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 4: mohammadali via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 5: [phil h] via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 6: _Tophee_ via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 7: yonatan zur via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 8: somebody_ via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 9: Panoramas via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 10: astorg via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 11: Erathic Eric via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 12: erlucho via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 13: Ivan Zuber via flickr<\/a> under a CC license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Largest Bike Sharing Program in the World — V\u00e9lib\u2019<\/h3>\n

V\u00e9lib\u2019 started on July 15, 2007<\/a>. Initially, it included 10,000 bikes and 750 stations. By the beginning of 2008, it had about 20,000 bicycles at about 1,500 stations<\/strong>. In the first 100 days, the program had 10 million rentals<\/strong>, an average of about 100,000 rentals a day! Each bike would turn over about 5-15 times a day. In about 6 months, the number of bicyclists in Paris nearly doubled!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can use a bike for less than half an hour for free, or, after that, it costs \u20ac1 for another half-hour before rising more steeply. I love the first half-hour being free because many trips aren’t that long and it encourages more people who wouldn’t bike to try the program.<\/p>\n

With about 25 million rentals in one year<\/strong>, replacing 10% of car traffic alone, an amazing transformation of the transportation system in one of the world’s most famous global cities has occurred. The British newspaper The Independent<\/a> reports: “Describing V\u00e9lib’ as a ‘form of utopia’, Lib\u00e9ration newspaper said that the presence of thousands of slow-moving, stately bikes has also had a soothing effect on Paris’ frenetic pace. ‘At the speed of a bicycle, an idea is gaining ground: one of a less arrogant and more human city,’ it said.”<\/p>\n

I saw someone at a rail\/transit conference in Miami make the point that the program creates a sort of individualized public transit<\/strong> — I thought that was a novel and very accurate description of the program. And, actually, a person gets a “smartcard” to use the program when they sign up for a transit card. This smartcard accounted for about 60% of the rentals in the first 100 days. You can also get yearly (\u20ac29), weekly (\u20ac5), or daily (\u20ac1) memberships in order to be able to check out the bikes.<\/p>\n

With the great health benefits of cycling, I have heard another person say that Paris is creating “a city of athletes” with this bicycle sharing program. Maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but many people are benefiting from cycling around Paris and the health benefits are countless, for sure.<\/p>\n

How popular is the program? After 1 year, 94% of Parisians support the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to see more about the other<\/strong> best bike sharing program in the world<\/a> or read a brief history of different bike-sharing programs, check out page 2<\/a> of the Barcelona bicycle city photo tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As The Independent<\/a> reports, and hopefully you got a little flavor of it from the pictures below: “In the space of one year the v\u00e9lib’ has become a Parisian institution, giving the streets and boulevards of the French capital a vague air of Amsterdam or Cambridge.”<\/p>\n

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On the flickr page<\/a> of this last photo, there are notes showing how to check out and return a v\u00e9lib\u2019 bicycle.<\/h3>\n

For an amazing video on v\u00e9lib\u2019, visit Streetfilms.org<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Image Credit 1: carlosfpardo via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 3: the noggin_nogged via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 4: austinevan via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 5: [phil h] via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 6: Marcia_Salviato via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 7: reinn via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 8: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 9: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 10: austinevan via flickr<\/a> under a CC license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Street Artists Transport Pictures on Bikes<\/p>\n

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Other Street Artists Stand on Bikes<\/h3>\n

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Street Art Can Include Bikes<\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: franck94 via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: franck94 via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 3: \u00b0\u2022\u25cfMr Ro\u25cf\u2022\u00b0 via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 4: c-reel.com via flickr<\/a> under a CC license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Biking for All Ages & All Styles<\/h3>\n

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The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~Ann Strong<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hope you got a good glimpse of kids on bikes here. For pictures of babies on bikes<\/a>, visit the Groningen photo tour<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Image Credit 1: iulian nistea via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: iulian nistea via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 3: [auro] via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 4: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 5: Abdou.W via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 6: [phil h_] via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 7: broken glass via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 8: THEfunkyman via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 9: Vinvin F via flickr<\/a> under a CC license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Biking is for Friends & Lovers<\/h3>\n

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Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Image Credit 1: Alain Bachellier via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 2: Joe Shlabotnik via flickr<\/a> under a CC license
\nImage Credit 3: Feuillu via flickr<\/a> under CC license
\nImage Credit 4: Julien Hery via flickr<\/a> under a CC license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hope He Wasn’t Riding that Bike<\/h3>\n

(The guy on the right, that is. The guy on the left is using a V\u00e9lib\u2019 bike.)<\/p>\n

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Image Credit: iulian nistea via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bike Taxis<\/h3>\n

As in Barcelona<\/a> and Berlin<\/a>, you can find these cool bicycle taxis in Paris.<\/p>\n

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If you missed the others, check out the #10 Basel<\/a><\/strong>, #9 Bogota<\/a><\/strong>, #8 Barcelona<\/a><\/strong>, #7 Berlin<\/a><\/strong>, and #6 Groningen<\/a><\/strong> great bicycle city photo tours.<\/p>\n

To keep yourself updated on the next four photo tours, keep your eye on EcoWorldly<\/strong><\/a> or even subscribe to its feed or email list<\/a>. Have something extra to add? Comment below!<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Mohsan via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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