• Since this weekend, for 4 euros in addition to the race, G7 taxis transport the bikes, up to three biclous, of their customers.

  • Bicycle and taxi "are absolutely complementary," said Olivier Schneider, president of the federation of bicycle users.

If your bike is pumped up, you can now take it on board with you in a taxi. The Parisian company G7 recently launched an offer allowing its passengers to carry up to three bicycles with them. This service is made possible by removable bicycle racks attached to the back of some cars. The option has been available since this weekend on the G7 mobile application for a cost of 4 euros. Of the 9,000 taxis in the fleet in Île-de-France, only around 100 vehicles are currently equipped. According to the company, other volunteer drivers should gradually be fitted.

According to an Ipsos study, commissioned by G7, 34% of their regular customers are bicycle users (at least several times a month). The taxi platform thus intends to meet the different needs of two-wheeler aficionados: "bad weather, fatigue, late returns, long-distance trips, material breakdown, commute to service, etc."

An initiative considered interesting by the French Federation of bicycle users (Fub).

“Cycling is becoming more and more important in the city.

It is absolutely complementary to the taxi, ”says Olivier Schneider, its chairman.

The development of this type of offer is, according to Fub, good news.

“It's admitting that the bike is not just a prole thing!

That there are also people without a car who have professional appointments and who sometimes want to travel by bicycle - because it's fluid, especially at rush hour - then sometimes need to take a taxi and '' take their bike on board.

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Calm the relationship between cyclists and drivers

"It's not a revolution, but it's still a very important signal and I hope that the VTC will follow suit", indicates Olivier Schneider. An observation shared by Camille Hanuise, director of the Paris en Selle association. “This is proof that the bicycle has become a truly full-fledged mode of transport,” she says. "I think that in Paris, the uses that we will see are, for example, people who have a puncture and who wish to transport their bike to be able to repair it" and for other city dwellers, a solution "after an alcoholic evening ", To whom this will offer" the possibility of returning safely, without leaving the bike in the street ", suggests Camille Hanuise.

Make people understand with this type of initiative that "the bicycle and the taxi are solutions, it is also to appease the relations between cyclists and taxi drivers", delights the president of the Fub. “The drivers generally behave very well, but from time to time we have a few unscrupulous taxis with the cyclists. Me, often [when] I get yelled at [on the road], I tell them: "You know, I'm a taxi customer, I'm not just a cyclist ... Be careful, it's just people like me who don't do not have a car, who will take a taxi more often than those who have their own automobile. " "

“It's true that for a long time we have had a tendency and still do, to pit taxis and bicycles against each other.

Perhaps [with this service] the drivers will realize that they have a potential clientele ”, abounds for his part Camille Hanuise.

“Symbolically, it's going in the right direction and it shows that things are changing,” nevertheless tempers the rather optimistic Parisian cyclist.

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