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Old 11-28-07, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by zoltani
The thing is that it is one euro a day, but only for 30min blocks. Each extra 30 min block you have the bike is an extra euro. So these bikes are not really sitting around to get stolen. That also insures that there are bikes in the stations. I know when we took the velib we were pedaling like hell so that we could get where we were going in less than 30 min.
If you take a bike and keep it for 24 hours you will pay 49 euros.
You never need to pay anything more than the fifteen euro yearly charge because if you want to ride more than thirty minutes you just return the bike to a station and then check it out again. There are a lot of bikes 'sitting around', but it would not be at all easy to steal one from a station as they are really locked up well.
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