Rome to be latest city to launch bike-sharing programme

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Rome is to become the latest European city to set up a self-service bike rental programme and has hired Spanish infrastructure group FCC to set up the system, the company announced Tuesday.

Cemusa, an FCC subsidiary, will install bike stations in Rome "in the coming months" for the pilot programme.

"The pilot programme, with an initial length of six months, will include 250 bicycles and 22 stations in the historic centre of Rome," FCC said in a statement.

It will later be extended throughout the city, with a goal of installing 20,000 bikes.

"Travelling in the centre of Rome will be easier, faster, economical and environmentally sound with the experimental bike-sharing programme," said the mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni said in the...