Kyiv becomes more European: July, 5 in the capital the municipal bicycle rental Nextbike was presented.

Nextbike is a fully automated bicycle rental system.
At any time of a day 7 days a week, anyone can use services of rental. The peculiarity of this type of service is that taking a bike for rent at one point, you can leave it in another.
Since 2015, this system has successfully been operating in Lviv. In the capital eight bike stations will operate, 20 “iron horses” are allocated. First rental centers will be opened near metro stations “Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho”, ‘Beresteis'ka”, “Mins’ka”, “Livoberezhna”, “Pozniaky”, “Vystavkovyi Tsentr” and near Pyrogovo.

If the experiment with the implementation of a new public transport goes well, the citizens of Kyiv will receive about 100 new bike stations.
As for prices for such transport, a season ticket will cost 800 UAH, a month - 120 UAH. Without a permanent ticket you can use the bike for 50 UAH during the first 30 minutes, and 50 UAH - for each subsequent hour.

Now Nextbike is available in more than 100 cities in 16 countries on three continents: the system works in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Dubai, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the USA.

This system of bicycle rental for overloaded Kyiv could be a real solution to the problem of congestions in the city center. However, this requires not only the bikes, but bike paths, traffic lights, trails. After all, it is necessary that the drivers respect cyclists. I hope that the citizens of Kyiv support the implementation of environmental mode of transport, and Kyiv administration will not stop on the achieved and will accomplish such a useful business.