ASCOBIKE: Largest Bicycle Parking Facility in the Americas
ASCOBIKE isn't your average bicycle parking station. It is located an hour out of São Paulo on the grounds of the commuter rail station in a city with zero bicycle infrastructure. And yet, ASCOBIKE houses 1700 bikes daily, and offers a series of social, legal and bicycle education services. Watch this video and see how unique ASCOBIKE really is.
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[0:40] This is the largest bicycle parking facility in the Americas.
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[1:11] 85% of the people that use the bicycle parking facility then get on the train. That's just an example of intermodal transportation.
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[3:12] Besides giving a safe place for the bicycles to park all day long, they also offer social services.
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[5:06] And I think the model has shown that it works really well. And I think it has great potential to be multiplied.
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