Not brand new, but the first time we've seen the stats none the less. The Velib program in Paris has released some figures outlining the popularity and usage of it's bike share. For those of you that stopped speaking mauvais Français in school here's an outline:
- Trips to date: 20 million
- Average trips/day: 70,000
- Average trip time: 18 minutes
- 190,000 annual pass holders
- 42% of users are female, 58% are male
- 1/3 of users come from outside the central city
- 17% of users are 46+ years old
- 94% of users like the service
94% of users liking the service is a deeply impressive stat, whilst the spread of users across ages and genders is maybe even more so. Most cities record far more male cyclists than females. The Velib seems to have somehow bypassed this.
Surely figures like this will convince more cities to recreate this amazing cultural and social shift.
