The image is the same in many places in the city: bikes lying in prohibited places or that hinder the passage. mainly its circulation and its parking in areas not allowed. These bicycles work in parallel to the shared bicycle system (Rojas), the Bicing, which has a defined parking network. From January to June of this year, it has imposed it to 2,472 fines for poor parking bicycles for minutes also called Sharing. The City Council has charged 80% of them, according to municipal sources.
The new circulation ordinance of pedestrians and vehicles in Barcelona, in force since February, sanctions drivers who mislead their bicycles with 100 euros fines, to which the cost of the crane must be added in cases where the vehicle is admitted to the municipal deposit. The only place where you can park bicycles is in an inverted U anchors. Bicycle companies to lease have not facilitated the global amount of fines. But they have slipped that they give advice to their customers through their virtual application about the right places to park and provide security recommendations.
Barcelona has awarded – under the current municipal contest that began at the end of December and has a duration of two years – operation licenses to seven with a validity of two years and a global park of 3,478 bicycles. Each of them has 497 vehicles except one that has 496. The license is conditioned to the payment of a municipal rate and requirements such as: dispose of a unique and visible identification number for each vehicle, respect the current regulations, provide geolocation data or correctly relocate vehicles.
Like most users parks in the busiest areas of the city, it is common to see the beach of Barceloneta, the Sagrada Familia, the Arc of Tromf or Plaza Cataluña, full of bicycles miscariated by the lack of site and the hurry of the cyclists to reach their destination. Another of the reasons is that, in some cases, it is not the user who pays fines for parking badly, but the same.
In some cases, it has been the companies themselves that have decided to load the amount of fines to their users: “All our users must take a photograph of the bicycle parking before the trip can end,” said a spokeswoman for Bolt, a company that carries customers the amount of any fine derived from the use of their bicycles. “All the fines we receive for parking infractions are reviewed one by one by the operations team, validating whether the infraction was motivated by the last user who used the bicycle or by external agents,” they explain. The validation is done through a geolocation system, verifying that the user parked correctly on the trip prior to the issuance of the fine.
Following the complaints made by the 566 bicycles of sharing The municipal deposit has been entered in the period between January and May of this year because they are evolved. The City Council explained that the surveillance devices in charge of Urban Guard and Barcelona of Serveis Municipals are responsible for coordinating the actions to denounce the poorly parked bicycles.
Sources from the Cooltra company have explained that each operator has a “geofence”, a device that indicates the location of each of the fleet bicycles and that “a lot of pedagogy” is carried out through the application of the company. “We like that the people of Barcelona will also find bicycles next to their home and that they are not only in the port, in La Rambla or the Olympic village. We want it to be a more means of transport for the premises,” said a spokeswoman for the company that has renewed its fleet this month. Several brands have admitted certain vandalism problems, which they consider normal in this type of services.
Unlike the previous license, in which six concessionary companies were withdrawn, in the last contest there was only one that retired after the award. The Consistory explained that the company did not complete the presentation stage of the required documentation. Although initially the City Council announced that the 497 places of the company that retired would be distributed, these were not finally distributed and the Consistory has not advanced that it will be done with them in the next concession. So far the City Council has not withdrawn any license.
