Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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The Madrid bikes up to 33

BEATRIZ RUBIO / SOITU.ES

If you bike and live in Madrid and you can upload it to the bus. Of course, only if you take the line 33 . Well, if you try it on weekends. That, or make a folding, yes I can travel with you now. The EMT will from Saturday September 27 is up by two bicycles per car in a new media adapted to the buses.

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The device was presented Monday by the Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT ) and allows the placement of bike securely in the back of the bus. For the moment, is a pilot project which can only be used in line 33, which makes the journey Principe Pio House, and during the weekends.

Bringing this 'extra baggage' on the bus is free of charge, with a ticket like any other traveler can ask the driver to let us put (with a maximum of two bikes per bus). How to do it, as Juan Merallo Spokesman Pedalibre platform, "at first may seem difficult but as you see it's very easy teach." And that is the "Green Jackets" staff Mobile Service (SAM) , which will, during the first months of brochures to each stop on using the new device and to help cyclists need.

Despite the limitations of the project, Pedalibre members attended the launch because they consider it very positive : "We are pleased because it is an innovative initiative in Europe, including places where cycling is normal or where no have metro and bus is the only urban transport, "says Merallo.

From Pedalibre expect in a short space of time extending over more lines, among its priorities are: which include very steep streets, which include streets with a very heavy traffic and going to the airport . Moreover, Nuria Garcia, spokesman for the EMT said that "there is no specified date for the trial period of this pilot project, nor is intended for the moment, other lines in the possible future implementation.

cyclists

collectives emphasize that this initiative must be accompanied by another series of measures: creation of infrastructure, regulatory changes affecting the bike (like spaces have a space for bikes, traffic in the streets ...), the creation of an office of the bike, etc. " are among those mentioned by John.

Apart from these devices, now also open the doors of city buses to cyclists who have a folding bike . That itself is subject to certain conditions that aim not to disturb the public not to 'walk'. So it is obligatory to fold your bike before boarding the bus, only allowed one per vehicle and taken into the central platform and be subject at all times by its owner. If there is no space for a bicycle, and simultaneously, a wheelchair or stroller, they take precedence over the bicycle, which must get off the bus if necessary.

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