{"id":2783,"date":"2009-05-26T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:33","slug":"have-you-tried-the-bixi-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/26\/have-you-tried-the-bixi-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you tried the Bixi yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/3560459338\/\" title=\"Bixi \/ Crescent &amp; de Maisonneuve by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3330\/3560459338_2d9eda7e9e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Bixi \/ Crescent &amp; de Maisonneuve\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixi.com\/\">Bixi<\/a>, Montreal&#8217;s new public bike system, was officially <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/montreal-inaugurates-continents-most-ambitious-bike-sharing-program\/\">launched<\/a> exactly two weeks ago. Have you tried it yet?<\/p>\n<p>Being a daily user of the bicycle, I didn&#8217;t yet have to rely on the Bixi, but have seen countless numbers of them pass me by on the cycling lane. They are most noticeable by their strong aluminium body and a flashing front LED light (powered by a dynamo). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixi.com\/stations\">Stations<\/a> are scattered from Rosemont to the area west of Concordia. They also go far east towards Metro Frontenac and south into the Cit\u00e9 du Multim\u00e9dia.<\/p>\n<p>To use Bixi, you can either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixi.com\/abonnement-et-tarif\/en-ligne\">buy<\/a> a year-long ($78 tx incl.), monthly ($28) or 24-hour pass ($5). <strike>Then, you pay another amount depending on the time you spend between stations.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s free for the first 30 minutes of each ride between stations. If you decide to keep the bike longer on any single trip, then you will pay a little extra money ($1.50 if you take it between 30 minutes and 1 hour). This is to encourage people to have short trips and return their Bixi if they don&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/3559642857\/\" title=\"Bixi \/ Crescent &amp; de Maisonneuve by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3597\/3559642857_863d49ec28.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Bixi \/ Crescent &amp; de Maisonneuve\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/3560461248\/\" title=\"Bixi - Important by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3298\/3560461248_bd02e4fd7c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Bixi - Important\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bixi, Montreal&#8217;s new public bike system, was officially launched exactly two weeks ago. Have you tried it yet? Being a daily user of the bicycle, I didn&#8217;t yet have to rely on the Bixi, but have seen countless numbers of them pass me by on the cycling lane. They are most noticeable by their<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/26\/have-you-tried-the-bixi-yet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Have you tried the Bixi yet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7828,7839,33],"tags":[119,6,48,125,302],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-neighbourhoods","category-transit","tag-bixi","tag-cycling","tag-downtown","tag-montreal","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Have you tried the Bixi yet? - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/26\/have-you-tried-the-bixi-yet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have you tried the Bixi yet? - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Bixi, Montreal&#8217;s new public bike system, was officially launched exactly two weeks ago. 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