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The
main idea of this project was to collect old and abandoned bycicles, to
restore and give them for free to the tourists and the citizens. I
wanted to realize the project through an international volunteer
workcamp so that several goals were reached at the same time:
environment promotion, alternative transportation promotion and
international cooperation.
The
idea of bike sharing came up during my first trip in Copenhagen almost
10 years earlier (1996) when I realized how cool could be having a bike
for visiting new places.
The
idea of renewing old bikes came up when I tried to ask my municipality
to buy new bikes for giving them to the tourists and the reply was that
they did not have money to do that and they were not interested on the
idea (they are actually much more interested in creating parking lots
for increasing the traffic ...).
The
idea of using a workcamp for realizing the project was due to my
passion for the international cooperation (at that time I already
attended 7 international workcamps).
All
these ideas together made Bi-Ri-Ciclando possible!
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