The Melbourne City Council has decided to make free bicycles available to visitors in Melbourne city. For this, the Council has been in talks with the outdoor advertising major JCDecaux.
Jcdecaux has already been launched free city cycle programs in as many as four European cities. Lyon, Vienna and Brussels have been adopted JCDecaux’s CityCycle system in last two years. Paris is the next destination for the free bike plan of the company.
Melbourne City Council’s planning chairperson Catherine Ng said that the bike plan for the city visitors looks easy. Visitors can park the bike anywhere you want around town. They will be able to take a bike from one rack by registering his account by giving the credit card details.
They can return the bike to any rack across the city. The bike facility would be free of cost if returned within the hour. Failing to return the bike would cost the visitors $1000 that would be debited from their credit card.
Melbourne City Council selected four locations such as in disused space on Flinders Street next to the train station, outside Southern Cross railway station, on Swanston Street near RMIT and near Parliament House.
On the other hand, JCDecaux had also acknowledged that, 15 per cent of bikes would be damaged each year and another 15 per cent would possibly be stolen each year.
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