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The city has been chosen to chair the Network of Cities for Cycling that includes over one hundred municipalities
Murcia will be over the next four years the Spanish capital of the bike.
The bid submitted by the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, has been chosen by representatives of municipalities hundred members of the Network of Cities for Bicycle, meeting today in Santander in assembly.
The organization, which was created in 2009, aims to promote a dynamic between the Spanish cities in order to facilitate, and develop safer movement for cyclists, especially in urban areas.
Among the members of the network are the municipalities of Barcelona, ​​Cordoba, San Sebastian, Seville, Madrid, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza and Vitoria.
The choice of Murcia is a recognition of the efforts made in recent years to implement the bicycle as a regular means of transport, now that it has completed one year since the launch of the Office of the Bicycle.
Pioneered Murcia in Spain to implement a rental system itself that encourages the development of local small businesses as a way to promote cycling.
It currently has over 250 bikes and 388 users, who have made a total of 450 rentals during the first year of service.
Moreover, cyclable road network of the municipality has constructed and 161 km will be extended up to 551 km.
641 have also been implemented bicycle parking spaces in the city and come to 7,150 seats in the next 6 years.
We have also installed a total of nine fully enclosed parking.
To date there have been 513 bikes and marked 393.
The Municipal Office of the City Bicycle pioneered the creation of a directory with the bikes stolen, abandoned, accident or lost, so that, once removed to impound, their owners could identify them and recover them.
All these pictures are available www.oficinabicicletamurcia.com on the 'Recovery of bicycles in storage. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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