Malaga city is perfect for adventurers, in recent years it has fully embraced cycling. There were times when cycling in the city was done only by the braves who didn’t mind risking their lives. As cycling required limb dodging high-speed traffic of the Malaga’s street, therefore, it wasn’t easy. However, gone are those days and now people are riding around bikes and talking about cycling or thinking to start it as cycling lanes are popping up everywhere.
People cannot be blamed for it since there are about 320 days of sunshine in Malaga as well as the best temperature in Europe, therefore a lot of people consider cycling as a means of transport.
Plan Andaluz de la Bicicleta – Andalusian Cycling Plan:
Bug plans are being made to extend cycle lanes in Andalusia. The government has led the plan Andaluza de la Bicicleta which will connect the provincial capitals of Andalucia including Algeciras and Jerez. People will be able to cycle from Granada to Cadiz. The network is 3080 km and a lot of it is already in used by rural lanes and cattle trails.
A little maintenance and signposting are required on it. There are more inter-urban cycle paths being established in conjunction with this regional development. The estimated cost is around 403.8 million euros.
New cycle routes for Malaga province:
The plan is to establish a network of 115 km connecting the coastal stretch through Rincon de la Victoria and Fuengirola while establishing two inland links between Cartama –Technological Park and Alhaurin de la Torre-Churriana-Costa. Now, there is more than 30 km of cycle lanes while more are being added every day. However, the city centre has about 7.5 km of lanes.
Though many main parts of Malaga are dedicated to pedestrians, however, touring Malaga by bike is a wonderful way to see the main highlights. Many companies offer bicycle rentals, guided tours and more where Malaga Bici program is very famous with the locals.
Málaga Bici Bicycle Rental Service:
Málaga Bici is a rental service of bicycles which was founded by the local government, EMT (official transportation company) and Cemusa (media company). This subsided rental service is becoming extremely popular and how it operates is described below:
- First, you have to register, you can do it in Spanish or English online at https://entradas.janto.es/cemusa/malaga/public/janto/ . you have to reside in Spain and have a credit card to register.
- If you are not resident in Spain, then you have to register in person at the EMT office which is in the Alameda Principal, 15.
- You will be given absolutely free first 30 minutes of cycling.
- As the 31-minute start, you have to pay 0.017 euro per minute. You can top up the credit by 10 or 5 euro each time in order to pay.
- There will be about 20 bicycles pick up as well as drop off stations across Malaga.
- Blue and yellow are the symbols of showing the bikes that are available and not available respectively, where grey symbol sows not in use.
- While collecting the bike, you can notice the in-service bikes that have the green light in stand whereas red light on the bike stand which are not in use.
- There is no restriction that you have to return the bike to where you picked it from. You can return the bike to any stand across the city.
- You can also download the free app.
- Here http://malagabici.malaga.eu/webpublica/estaciones.html is a map of the bicycle stands across the Malaga city.
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