Madrid electrical bicycle share system takes off


A municipal employee carries out preventative maintenance and repairs on a BiciMad public electric bikes share station in Madrid. -AFP filepic

MADRID: They allow you to climb the steepest streets of Madrid without sweating, even on sultry summer days: more than 50,000 residents of the Spanish capital have signed up for a public electric bike share system.

In the shadow of the San Ildefonso church in the heart of Madrid, Anne Stauder, a tourist from Luxembourg, is trying out a BiciMAD bike for the first time.

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