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Pedal in the curse of the capital’s tallest skyscrapers – which house among them universal banks, the Mexican stock market, four- and five-star hotels – correspond to to the vehicles traffic zooming by. Ground-level barriers control automobiles from crossing into the cyclists’ lane.
Ivan Tellez, who works at the parentage market, pulled a red-and-white Ecobici off the rack on Reforma as he ready-to-eat to zip down the street to meet his sister, who works in another tower nearby, for lunch. He uses his Ecobici membership diurnal during workdays, he said, leaving his car as far as possible from the congestion of the business territory.
The program “is really great, similar to the one in Paris,” he said.
Mexico Metropolis’s bike-sharing program is modeled on those in Paris and Copenhagen and was at the vanguard when it opened in 2010. U.S. cities are following adapt, with programs recently begun in Boston and Washington, D.C.; New York plans to fulfil a bike-sharing program this year.
Source: SmartPlanet.com (blog)