Ningbo’s first public bike rent stations started construction
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Monday, 12 August 2013 11:19
Ningbo is to complete the construction of the first group of 300 public bike rent stations by September 22, with 7,500 for rent.
The other day, the construction of the public bike rent station near Ningbo Institute of Technology of Zhejiang University in Yinzhou started. This is the first one of the public bike rent stations of Ningbo. This station will have 30 bikes and it is computerized to the other stations and the renting and returning can be handled at any of the stations.
The station is an 11-meter-long bike locker for 30 bikes. It is before a park facing the institute across the road, harmonious with the environment.
“Here are so many students and the bikes may be in great demand,” said the builders. With this station and the stations around here at the schools and library, “a student can ride a rented bike to Yinzhou Library and return it at the station there, or vice versa. The bike is free for rent within one hour.”
In addition, on the same day, another station at Ningbo Polytechnic also started construction this station is also for 30 bikes.
On the construction site, an authority of Ningbo Passenger Transport Administration Bureau said, in the coming one month and a half, the first group of 300 stations will start construction. Before September 22, 7,500 bikes will be put in use. By the end of this year, another group of 7,500 bikes will be put in use. When the target, 600 stations with 15,000 bikes, is completed, the people in urban areas will have a new way for short-distance traffic.
