Madrid the latest Euro city to put more bikes on the streets

Riders can take and return bikes from any of the 123 stations around Madrid.

To cut through traffic jams, people in Spain’s capital can now rent electric (motorised) bicycles.

Riders whizzed up and down Madrid’s sunny avenues on white electric bikes on June 21 as the Spanish capital launched its first shared-bicycle scheme called BiciMad. Madrid is seeking to match cities such as Barcelona, Paris and London by providing hundreds of bicycles for public hire – with the added feature of electric motors to help ride up slopes.