Palma City Council agreed yesterday to provide an extra 432'000 euros to fund the public cycle service Bicipalma. The system which was started as a free pilot service by the previous Socialist coalition council in Palma will from 18th December onwards have to be paid for by users. Until now the service had not been allocated a budget figure.
Partido Popular (PP) City Council spokesman, Julio Martinez, said yesterday: We've inherited the cycle system under irregular circumstances, so we've had to make a special modification to the 2013 budget to accommodate it. The Municipal Parking Company (SMAP) will be responsible for the management of Bicipalma which already has 1'900 users signed up to it.
The City Council had recently come in for criticism that it had not made sufficient new bicycles available after theft from, and vandalism of, the batch initially provided, but the ruling Partido Popular has promised more cycles will arrive to top up the service.
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