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Municipal bicycles - Granollers, ES

Introduction

This project provides the workers of the Granollers City Council with public bicycles to improve their mobility.

Problem

How to improve the use of sustainable means of transport among the employees of the Granollers City Council.

Description

The Department of Mobility of the Granollers City Council acquired a fleet of 20 bicycles to promote their use between public workers. The bicycles were distributed among the different municipal buildings, and put at the disposal of all City Council employees for their common trips.

After a year, six new bicycles were bought in order to satisfy the demand. The Department of Mobility is in charge of the maintenance and repair of the bicycles, which is commissioned to a local repair shop.

Approach

The programme has three objectives:

Offer the public workers a means of transport for short trips that improves their working conditions.
Promote through the example the use of the bicycle in the city of Granollers.
Increase the use of the bicycle as an urban means of transport.

Results

The use of the bicycles has increased progressively since the start of the project, in early 2005. Besides, the fleet has been increased in six units in order to satisfy the demands. Another indicator of the success of the project is that different departments of the City Council have formulated requests concerning this service.

Contact info

Department of Mobility. Granollers City Hall.
c/ St. Josep, 7
08400 Granollers
Spain
Phone: +34 938426814
Josep Lluís Castell Romero

Project start date

18/11/2006

Links

Network of Cities for Climate – Best practices http://www.granollers.org

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Transport and infrastructure > Roads and road transport

Keywords

Traffic management