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The coordinator of Union Progress and Democracy (UPyD) in Cartagena, Fulgencio Egea, has referred to the City of Cartagena the need to improve the bicycle hire service through Bicity, to make it more accessible to citizens, with greater attention to the use of the service, as well as in rates and sanctions to ensure its viability in Cartagena.

Thus, Egea, has said that the current cost and time constraints of use and are a major barrier to the citizens, but not the only, since to access the service, the obligation to register as a user in the offices of Hall, the necessary documentation, and time to do it, are part of the failure of the service, to which is attached the few points of loans.

Using Bicity service in the city, as to the rules and procedures of access and use, we risk having an incident or accident, you can cost the user up to 300 €, the value of the bikes.

Included in the event of theft, in which if the user does not perform the steps correctly, submit an application, call customer service Bicity, and the corresponding report, the user is in a defenseless incomprehensible to be a public service, where sanctions are charged directly to a bank card that necessarily has to present the user when registering.

Also, training spokesman magenta, said he does not share the sanctions in all cases posed the City has criminalized the user, but can be shared even less than the delay of an hour suppose not being able to use the service during a full day, when to be finished within 3 hours available, deliver the bike in lending, already imposes a natural restriction to reuse the service.

Egea considered to be a measure ineffective, unfair and doomed to failure.

Issues that do not trust citizens to use and demonstrate the failure of the service, without the City Council provide usage statistics.

If you check the "On-Line State" of Cartagena Bicity website is easy to see that a majority of time that you are not using any of the bikes available, so that their use can only be considered symbolic.

Source: UPyD Cartagena