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Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Lisbon residents with travel pass can use Gira bikes for free as of June
Lisbon,May.26,2023(Lusa)-As of June 5th,all Lisbon residents with a monthly Navegante public transport travel pass can use Gira bicycles for free, in a scheme that started on Friday for the young and senior citizens who already have a free pass. It was not at the first attempt, but Inês managed to associate the number of her free Navegante pass to the EMEL bikes in the app of the Lisbon mobility and parking company, and can now travel by Gira free of charge around the city. Inês was the first to experience the connection of the Gira system with the Navegante pass, which, as of today, is available to all young residents in Lisbon, over 16 and under 23 years of age, and also to citizens over 65 years of age, who already have this free pass. According to the city's mayor, Carlos Moedas (PSD), the goal is to advance measures for the decarbonisation of the city, so from June 5, the initiative will also be available to all Lisbon residents who buy the pass. "All of them, from today, under 23 and over 65, just get here on the app, show that they have the free Navegante pass and it's free [to use the Gira bikes]. The others have to prove that they live in Lisbon and, therefore, as of June 5, going to EMEL shops, they prove that they live in Lisbon and the use of bicycles will also be free", explained Carlos Moedas, stressing that the proof of residence at EMEL shops can be made with "an electricity bill or any other bill from home" that proves residence. Despite the fact that no supervision is foreseen, Carlos Moedas trusts that Lisbon citizens will continue to have the responsibility of leaving their bicycles stored in a dock, because there are "very few cases of this lack of responsibility". The mayor also said that the initiative "is a movement" that is part "of the whole of what is the decarbonisation of the city and that began with free public transport" and that will now move on to soft mobility". "It is now my goal, as mayor, my goal as a politician, that there is in the future a free public transport system in general. Now it has to be step by step, it has to be gradual," he added. Carlos Moedas defended that the whole Lisbon Metropolitan Area should be an example and start the path towards free public transport for the younger and older people, but recognised that this "depends on the other mayors". The new mode of free access to Gira bicycles was presented in a small ceremony next to one of the six new docking points in Telheiras, in the parish of Lumiar, between the streets Professor Carlos Teixeira and Professor Simões Raposo, with room for 16 bicycles. Besides this new docking point, five other points opened today, two in Santa Maria Maior - in Doca da Marinha (with 40 places) and in Ribeira das Naus (with 27) -; in Carnide, next to the Metro (20 places); in São Domingos de Benfica, between Avenida Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro and Rua de Campolide (17 places); and in Benfica, between the streets Tenente Coronel Ribeiro dos Reis and Conde de Almoster (17 places). In Lisbon, according to the council, there is now a total of 2,840 parking docks for bicycles. The number of Gira is around 1,000 bicycles and the aim, according to Carlos Moedas, is to double the number, to 2,000. RCS/AYLS // AYLS Lusa Agency : LUSA Date : 2023-05-27 03:55:00
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