"We Have the Impression that the Bike Community Has Disappeared": the Café-Cyclists on the Rim

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As the use of Vélib的 explodes in Île-de-France, acts of vandalism reach unprecedented heights. With more than 600 bicycles stolen each week, the public rental service faces an expensive hemorrhage, which weighs on the finances of the communities and irritates the users.

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No more beautification for these establishments where bike enthusiasts could repair their equipment, eat up, telework... In France, many of them lower the curtain.

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With some 640 bicycles disappearing from its radars each week, Agemob, the public body that manages Vélib' shared bicycles in the Paris region, is "warning" of a level of vandalism "three times higher" than normal.

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The self-service bicycle system suffers an unprecedented wave of vandalism, with disappearances three times higher than normal. The authorities are alarmed at this critical situation. The management of the Vélibs in the French capital is going through a major crisis. Every week, almost 640 bicycles disappear from the stations, an alarming figure [...] Read more Vélibs in Paris: a disturbing hemorrhage of 640 bicycles stolen each week appeared fi…