3,000 Additional Vélib’ Bicycles for the 2024 Olympic Games
This page is translated from the original post "3 000 Vélib’ supplémentaires pour les Jeux Olympiques 2024" in French.
- 22/12/2022 16:00
The Autolib’ Vélib’ union has announced that it will increase its fleet of free-floating bikes by about 20% for the 2024 Olympic Games to be held in Paris.
More than 3,000 additional Vélib’ bikes will be deployed by Paris 2024 Olympic Games (which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024), announced members of the Autolib’ Vélib’ Metropolis Union (SAVM). They explain that this increase in the fleet will benefit all users. It will allow to “reduce the usage frequency of each bike and improve their distribution across the entire network”. Early in the year, SAVM officials expressed concern about the quality of the public Vélib’ Métropole service. According to them, bikes were too few, in poor condition, and poorly distributed across the territory.
Vélib’ aims to be ready for the 2024 Olympic Games
These bikes are expected “as soon as possible, and at the latest by summer 2024”, specifies Sylvain Raifaud, president of SAVM, on Twitter. “Vélib’, the largest station-based bike-sharing service in the world, could not be absent from the 2024 Games”, explains the official. “And to meet the Olympic schedule, we first had to ensure a sufficient number of bike shares for all current users of the network”, he adds.
Thus, by summer 2024, 3,000 new bikes are expected to be riding through the streets of the capital. An increase of 20% in station bikes. The union is studying several measures to distribute these new bikes. Among them, the creation of temporary stations at Olympic sites that can hold several hundred bicycles. The goal is for Vélib’ to contribute to achieving a modal share of bike use for accessing Olympic sites of 10%. The bike service also wants to ensure that regular users are not disturbed. Finally, Vélib’ would like to serve more tourist sites in Paris, which are likely to be crowded in summer 2024.
The Velib’ Métropole service audit, launched in spring 2022 by SAVM, is expected to last until early 2023. Its goal is “to shed light on the flaws of the current system, particularly its economic model, and to correct them to ensure proper service operation until 2032, the end date of the market”.
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