Velib Turns One in Paris

July 15th marks the one year anniversary of Velib, Paris' wildly successful public use bicycle program.

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On Saturday the New York Times A New Fashion Catches On in Paris: Cheap Bicycle Rentals

And it was chock full of statistics :

• About 20,600 Vélib’ bicycles are in service at 1,450 self-service rental stations.
• There are 4X as many as there are subway stations as Metro stations
• 27.5 Million Trips or about 120,000 per day
• 3 Fatalities about one per 9 million trips
• Bike crashes up 7% but bicycle trips up 24%
• 15,000 stolen bikes (no word on the recovery rate of the GPS enabled bikes)
• $142 Million to set up the system including 1500 advertising kiosks
  
• 1500 Bike repairs a day
• Each bike averages 124 miles a year