GETTING AROUND THE REGGIO EMILIA AREA BY BICYCLE

Using your bicycle for work, play and health

Although more young and elderly people currently use bicycles on a daily basis, other people are discovering the convenience of getting to and from work by bicycle.

In the city, a bicycle is a flexible and competitive means of transportation for short commutes, light shopping, reaching the old city center and for multiple trips; that is, wherever cars and public transit have distinct limitations.

In many urban centers, cities are providing bicyclists and pedestrians with networks of paths offering an alternative to motorized traffic. Once bicycle paths were a low priority. They were built in disconnected sections and not fully suited to their intended use.

More recently, the design and construction of quality bicycle paths has grown, even if they are still subordinate to the needs of automobile traffic and the restrictions imposed by limited financial commitments.

To promote a sustainable model of mobility that represents an alternative to one exclusively based on the use of passenger cars, single bicycle paths are not enough. Instead a system of safe bicycle paths must be integrated with other forms of transportation, and must include dedicated services and facilities.

To download a map of the bicycle and pedestrian/bicycle paths in Reggio Emilia,

click on this link

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Bicittà

Located at the Via Cecati, Foro Boario and Trenitalia Station parking facilities, Bicittà offers bicycle rentals, storage and maintenance services. The service is useful for people who wish to leave their car in the parking facility and freely travel around the old city center by bicycle.

For further information on this service

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"PedalaRE" - the public bicycle rental service

PedalaRE, the public bicycle rental service operated by ACT, currently offers bicycles at the following locations (bike racks), which can be recognized by their red information boards:

• Cecati Parking Lot, with 14 bike posts
• Gasometro Parking Lot in via Paterlini, with 10 bike posts
• Trenitalia Station, with 14 bike posts
• Don Andreoli, on the street with the same name, with 10 bike posts
• City Hall (Municipio), in piazza della Frumentaria, with 10 bike posts
• Ospedale santa Maria Nuova, with 10 bike posts
• Polveriera Parking Lot, with 15 bicycles
• Ex Foro Boario Parking Lot, with 10 bike posts
• Caserma Zucchi Parking Lot, with 10 bike posts
• Piazzale Roversi, with 10 bike posts
• Piazza Vittoria with 10 bike posts
• Via Emilia San Pietro (Via Giorgione) with 10 bike posts
• Piazza Gioberti with 10 bike posts

TOTAL BIKES AVAILABLE: 78

The service can be used by anyone holding a special card, which can be purchased at participating ACT ticket offices:

• Caserma Zucchi, 
• piazzale Europa

• Cost of the service:
The cost of the card is 15 euros and does not include an initial credit. The first credit and subsequent additional credits - of 5 or 10 euros - can be purchased only at the above ticket offices.
The first half-hour of bicycle use is free of charge.
Afterwards, the cost is 50 euro cents every sixty minutes.

• How to use the service
To borrow a bike or to return it (even to a different location from where you borrowed it), simply hold the card near the white column at the borrowing/returning station, which will open the rack.
The timed cost of using the bike is deducted when it is returned.

• When the service is available
Bicycles can be borrowed from PedalaRE every day from 4:00 AM to 12:00 AM, but a bike can be returned to any location at any time.

For further information on this service, log on to www.bicincitta.com

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Bicibus

Introduced in 2005, the Bicibus is part of the “Ecoincentive Project” developed by the Province of Reggio Emilia to offer - along with the Pedibus, its twin program - alternative ways of travelling to school and back. Schools that guarantee a minimum number of participants in the project will receive from ACT a helmet, a raincoat and a safety reflective vest for each student.

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