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After only 18 months, Torontonians have taken Bixi bikes on over one millions trips around the city. Today, Melanie Brayne, the lucky one-millionth rider, received a prize by Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Ward 34, Don Valley East) at an event at City Hall.<\/p>\n

She received a one-year membership to Bixi and a Samsung Galaxy Note.\u00a0 Her prize-winning ride was last Friday morning, a 13 minute trip to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is honestly the best way for me to get around economically, financially, environmentally. It\u2019s great,\u201d Brayne said who uses the Bixi system two or three times a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cA fantastic number of people have been riding, a million transactions. We also have very significant membership. We hope to have a many million more riders,\u201d Minnan-Wong said.<\/p>\n

Recently, Minnan-Wong was the central figure in the controversial move to tear up the bike lanes on Jarvis street.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the next five years we\u2019re spending $43-million on developing a bike network,\u201d Minnan-Wong said. The city of Toronto has also given Bixi a $4.8-million loan guarantee, should the company run into financial difficulty.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn arrangement like this should be run by the private sector and that makes sense and quite frankly that allows us to do other things and invest money elsewhere like building separated bike lanes,\u201d Minnan-Wong said.<\/p>\n

After its launch in May 2011, it only took Bixi Toronto 18 months to see its one millionth rider.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Toronto is making some really big strides … but I think there\u2019s still a long way to go before it\u2019s where we would like to see it,\u201d said Brayne.<\/p>\n

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