Bike-sharing network i’Velo has relaunched with 450 regular and electric bikes available in Bucharest at 26 physical and 60 virtual rental stations, along with a new mobile app.<\/p>\n
Another novelty is that the physical stations can also be used as public parking spaces by those who use their own bikes. They are fitted with permanent video monitoring.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a context where Romania is faced with EC infringement procedures over air quality and its monitoring, i\u2019Velo emerges as a real solution to decongest urban traffic and improve quality of life in the city,\u201d an announcement quoted by G4media.ro<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n Besides the project\u2019s established locations, i\u2019Velo now reaches Bucharest\u2019s District 6, with physical and virtual stations. As such, bikes can be found at stations at: myhive Iride, Operei Square, Sky Tower, Triumph Arch, Roman\u0103 Square, Alba Iulia Square, Unirii Square, University, Revolu\u021biei Square, Victoriei Square, Aviatorilor, Tineretului Park, Regele Mihai I Park, IOR Park, One Verdi, Skanska, S-PARK, myhive Metroffice, Aviatorilor Boulevard, Charles de Gaulle Square, One Floreasca City, One Her\u0103str\u0103u Towers, Leu Dormitories, Parliament Palace, Gheorghe \u0218incai, Agronomie Campus, Gorjului subway station, Cr\u00e2nga\u0219i subway station, Liniei Park, Drumul Taberei Park, and Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u00a0subway station.<\/p>\n The city\u2019s network of bike lanes currently spans 56.3 kilometers, with 25.38 km functional and 30.92 km not meeting the minimum standards, according to the Velo Masterplan quoted by Profit.ro<\/a>. The development of more than 550 kilometers of bike lanes <\/a>is planned by 2035.\u00a0<\/p>\n (Photo:\u00a0Cristina Ionescu<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bike-sharing network i’Velo has relaunched with 450 regular and electric bikes available in Bucharest at 26 physical and 60 virtual rental stations, along with a new mobile app. Another novelty is that the physical stations can also be used as public parking spaces by those who use their own bikes. They are fitted with permanent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}