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The hire of bicycles in the City, Bicity has begun renewed using new technologies and automated dispensers with longer hours and greater scrutiny to prevent theft and may determine the units available at all times.

For the implementation of this new system have been installed and three points of the loan, which will be operational in 2010, located in the port, the Municipal Pavilion of Sports and Youth Resource Centre.

Dispensers is up to 14 bikes in each of them.

Made of stainless steel, equipped with special hooks so that bicycles can only be released from a card.

The loan is made by a vandal touchscreen that also provide tourist information about the city.

The basis of all this is a large data network developed by the Engineering Service Safety Park City, connecting providers and let you know in what parts are missing or too many bikes.

With this information, the maintenance of the new service will go bicity vehicles redistributed according to need and demand.

During the last few weeks have been undertaking the installation of this network of data at the point of loan port, for which it has been necessary to raise part of the Heroes of Cavite and the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.

Another innovative aspect of this service, which already operates successfully in other cities, is no longer free.

Users will have to pay a bond anualy.

The municipal government plans to gradually increase the number and locations where these automated dispensers are installed, to operate as a true intermodal transportation, complimentary car or bus travel within the city center or to central government or education.

This action led Bicity renewal by the Department of Sustainable Development and the municipal office of Mobility is complementary to other municipal projects designed to promote the use of bicycles in the city, including the expansion of bike lanes and new bicycle parking being installed in various spots downtown.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena