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Nice Ride Minnesota is a seasonally-operated nonprofit bicycle sharing system in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota based on the Bixi system from Montreal. Launched on June 10, 2010, it served over 10,000 trips in its first month and reached 100,817 rides in the first season of operation. The bicycles in the system are manufactured by Cycles Devinci. They are painted neon green and include a cargo carrier and headlights. They receive daily maintenance, and are redistributed throughout the system via truck. The system presently offers 1,550 bicycles for rent at 170 kiosks in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. The solar-powered kiosks are distributed throughout much of Minneapolis and western Saint Paul. Bike availability can be checked in real-time via smartphone or an online map. In the long term, the network is intended to cover most of Minneapolis and St. Paul.〔 Nice Ride operates from the first week of April through the first week of November. The bikes and stations are removed during the winter in order to protect them from damage (particularly corrosion from road salt) and make way for snow plows.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.niceridemn.org/news/2011/10/27/61/nice_ride_2011_season_ends_november_6 )〕 ==Memberships and fees== There are two ways to use the Nice Ride system, as a passholder or a member. Passes are available for 24 hours or 30 days and memberships include 30 day and 1 year options. Memberships must be purchased or redeemed through the Nice Ride website, while passes can be purchased by credit or debit card at individual station kiosks for $6 (24 hours) or $15 (30 days). Members receive an RFID "key" which is inserted into a slot on the bike dock to unlock a bike. Using a key to unlock a bike only takes a few seconds, while the process of purchasing a 24-hour or 30-day pass and getting subsequent rentals requires more user interaction with the kiosk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How it Works )〕 There is no limit to the number of trips allowed during a pass or membership period. For passholders, there is no additional charge for the first 30 minutes of each trip. Alternately, members get a full 60 minutes between stations with no additional charge. However, trip fees can rack up quickly—particularly after 90 minutes without redocking the bike—reaching up to a daily limit of $65 after 7 hours of use (in addition to any pass or membership fee).〔 This fee structure is designed to encourage short trips, keep bikes available, and push customers desiring multi-hour trips to use for-profit rental businesses rather than the subsidized bike-share service. Only about 2% of trips incur any fees. In the 2010 and 2011 seasons, Nice Ride placed an authorization hold on the credit or debit accounts of 24-hour subscribers per bicycle rented (24-hour subscribers can rent two bikes per credit/debit card at a time). The holds were initially set at $250 when system was launched in 2010, which caused problems for some customers—particularly those who had used debit cards, where it was possible cause an account overdraft. Prior to the system's launch, there was a concern that a large percentage of the bicycles would be stolen—especially in light of the Vélib' system in Paris, France, which had a theft rate of more than 50% in its first 18 months, and previous experience with theft and vandalism of free bikes provided by the Yellow Bike Coalition in Saint Paul a decade earlier. However, those worries proved to be unfounded with the new Bixi-based system—only one bike was counted as stolen in the 2010 season, and no bikes were lost or stolen in 2011. The authorization holds were reduced to $50 a few months after the June 2010 opening and were removed entirely for 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nice Ride Minnesota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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