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Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici)

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✎ Updated 22 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 7 sources. What changed →

The city bought nothing, so it holds nothing: bikes, docks and the only live data feed belong to the operator. Of about 300 stations, 110 have been vandalised and 63 pulled out of service.

Outcome📉 Scaled back
Evidence📰 Media
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byTembici, under contract to and supervised by the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad
Scale🏘️ District
FundingOperator-financed; no city budget. The city is paid in kind, in bike parking, for use of public space.

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Bogotá tendered the right to run a bike share as economic use of public space rather than buying one: Tembici finances, installs, operates and maintains the system under a contract running to 2029, pays the city in kind — bike parking rather than cash — and the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad only supervises. The first stations opened on 30 September 2022, and the system reached about 300 stations and 3,300 bicycles, including pedal-assist, cargo and hand-cycle models, across five central and northern localities. Because the city bought nothing, it holds nothing: the only live data is a GBFS feed on the operator's own platform, and that feed declares no licence, no terms of use and no attribution. Usage is falling — 743,472 trips between 1 January and 29 July 2025 against 968,174 in the same window of 2024 — and 110 of the roughly 300 stations have been vandalised, with 63 pulled out of service. The city says the contract stands and the system continues to operate.

Live 📅 since 2022

📊 Impact

743,472 trips from 1 January to 29 July 2025, down 23.2% from 968,174 in the same period of 2024; 110 of about 300 stations vandalised and 63 withdrawn from service (El Tiempo, July 2025). The city reported more than 4 million trips since launch.

🎓 Lesson

A bike share that costs the city nothing also leaves the city with nothing to govern: Bogotá supervises a service whose bikes, docks and only live data feed all belong to the operator.

🚲 MobilityShared mobilityCyclingOpen dataPublic space

Sources

↗ Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025)Authoritative for the operating model and the contract. Carries: "El contrato por medio del cual la empresa Tembici ofrece el servicio de alquiler de bicicletas compartidas tiene vigencia hasta el año 2029"; "Como contraprestación por el uso del espacio público, Bogotá ha recibido una retribución en especie mediante la instalación de cicloparqueaderos"; "El Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas, que a la fecha registra más de 4 millones de viajes"; and that the operator finances, installs, operates and maintains while the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad supervises. Fetched successfully.
↗ El Tiempo — "Movilidad responde a críticas contra Tembici: sistema de bicicletas compartidas sigue en pie y con contrato vigente" (July 2025)Sole carrier of the decline figure: trips "pasó de 968.174 entre el 1 de enero y el 29 de julio de 2024 a 743.472 en el mismo periodo de 2025, una reducción del 23,2 por ciento". Also carries 110 of ~300 stations vandalised, 63 stations removed, 14 arrests for theft, losses concentrated in Teusaquillo and Santa Fe. Fetched successfully. This is press reporting of the operator's/city's numbers, not an independent audit — hence evidence: media.
↗ GBFS system_information feed, bogota.publicbikesystem.net (live)First-hand check on 26 July 2026: the feed is live and returns system_id "bogota_bike", but operator, url, license_url, terms_url and attribution_organization_name are all null. This is the entry's evidence that the only machine-readable layer is operator-hosted and carries no licence. A v3.0 endpoint is also advertised at /customer/gbfs/v3.0/gbfs.json; the v3.0 system_information path returned 404 to an automated fetch.
↗ Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Un sueño hecho realidad: arrancó el primer Sistema de Bicis Compartidas"Published 30 September 2022Dates the launch to Friday 30 September 2022, with 50% of the system in the first phase (1,500 pedal-assist bikes, 150 stations, 150 hand-cycles, 150 cargo boxes). Not fetched directly — verified through search-result text only; the editor may wish to re-open it before sealing.
↗ Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Bogotá tendrá su sistema de bicis públicas compartidas: 300 estaciones"Published 4 May 2022Source for the full fleet composition: 300 stations and 3,300 bicycles — 1,500 pedal-assist, 1,500 mechanical, 150 hand-cycles, 150 with cargo boxes, plus 150 fitted with child seats. Not fetched directly — verified through search-result text only.
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↗ Xataka Colombia — "¿Una iniciativa en crisis? La realidad sobre el Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas de Bogotá" (2025)Carries the service footprint used for scale: about 300 stations across Usaquén, Chapinero, Barrios Unidos, Santa Fe and La Candelaria, operating 05:00–22:00, and 2025 tariffs. Corroborates the 23.2% decline and the vandalism figures independently of El Tiempo. Fetched successfully.
↗ Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad open data — "Estaciones Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas"Included for the ownership question: the city's own mobility hub carries a station-location layer for the system. HONEST CAVEAT — automated fetch returned only the page title, so record count, update date and licence terms could NOT be verified. The entry therefore claims nothing about this layer beyond its existence being outside the snippet.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2022. 3 of 7 sources carry a publication date, from 4 May 2022 to 29 July 2025.

When the sources were published

  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Bogotá tendrá su sistema de bicis públicas compartidas: 300 estaciones"
  2. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Un sueño hecho realidad: arrancó el primer Sistema de Bicis Compartidas"
  3. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025)

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Claim 1 clm-24c6aed297d7ba7d quantitative
Bogotá tendered the right to run a bike share as economic use of public space rather than buying one: Tembici finances, installs, operates and maintains the system under a contract running to 2029, pays the city in kind — bike parking rather than cash — and the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad only supervises
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's own statement carries all three parts: 'El contrato por medio del cual la empresa Tembici ofrece el servicio de alquiler de bicicletas compartidas tiene vigencia hasta el año 2029'; 'Como contraprestación por el uso del espacio público, Bogotá ha recibido una retribución en especie mediante la instalación de cicloparqueaderos'; and that the operator finances, installs, operates and maintains while the mobility secretariat supervises.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025)
Claim 2 clm-d88a31683cf9776b quantitative
The first stations opened on 30 September 2022, and the system reached about 300 stations and 3,300 bicycles, including pedal-assist, cargo and hand-cycle models, across five central and northern localities
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The launch announcement dates the opening to Friday 30 September 2022 with half the system in the first phase — 1,500 pedal-assist bikes, 150 stations, 150 hand-cycles and 150 cargo boxes. The fleet announcement gives the full composition: 300 stations and 3,300 bicycles, of which 1,500 pedal-assist, 1,500 mechanical, 150 hand-cycles, 150 with cargo boxes and 150 with child seats. The independent 2025 report gives the footprint: about 300 stations across Usaquén, Chapinero, Barrios Unidos, Santa Fe and La Candelaria, operating 05:00 to 22:00.
Caveat
The two city announcements were not fetched directly; both were verified through search-result text only.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Un sueño hecho realidad: arrancó el primer Sistema de Bicis Compartidas"
  2. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Bogotá tendrá su sistema de bicis públicas compartidas: 300 estaciones"
  3. Xataka Colombia — "¿Una iniciativa en crisis? La realidad sobre el Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas de Bogotá" (2025)
Claim 3 clm-b4262f1cbfa4ea3f descriptive
the only live data is a GBFS feed on the operator's own platform, and that feed declares no licence, no terms of use and no attribution
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
A first-hand check on 26 July 2026 found the feed live, returning system_id 'bogota_bike', with operator, url, license_url, terms_url and attribution_organization_name all null. A v3.0 endpoint is advertised but its system_information path returned an error to automated fetching.
Caveat
The city's own mobility hub does carry a station-location layer for the system, but an automated fetch returned only the page title, so its record count, update date and licence terms could not be verified — the entry claims nothing about it.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GBFS system_information feed, bogota.publicbikesystem.net (live)
  2. Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad open data — "Estaciones Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas"
Claim 4 clm-9f60331140f24226 quantitative
743,472 trips from 1 January to 29 July 2025, down 23.2% from 968,174 in the same period of 2024; 110 of about 300 stations vandalised and 63 withdrawn from service
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The daily is the carrier of the decline figure: trips 'pasó de 968.174 entre el 1 de enero y el 29 de julio de 2024 a 743.472 en el mismo periodo de 2025, una reducción del 23,2 por ciento', alongside 110 of about 300 stations vandalised, 63 removed, 14 arrests for theft and losses concentrated in two localities. The independent technology outlet corroborates both the 23.2 per cent decline and the vandalism figures.
Caveat
Press reporting of the operator's and the city's numbers, not an independent audit — which is why the entry grades the evidence as media.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Tiempo — "Movilidad responde a críticas contra Tembici: sistema de bicicletas compartidas sigue en pie y con contrato vigente" (July 2025)
  2. Xataka Colombia — "¿Una iniciativa en crisis? La realidad sobre el Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas de Bogotá" (2025)
Claim 5 clm-36dcd608d65373c9 quantitative
The city reported more than 4 million trips since launch
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city statement records 'El Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas, que a la fecha registra más de 4 millones de viajes'.
Caveat
A city self-report with no breakdown by year, published in response to criticism of the system.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025)
Claim 6 clm-4bd647dc5aa0e489 descriptive
A bike share that costs the city nothing also leaves the city with nothing to govern: Bogotá supervises a service whose bikes, docks and only live data feed all belong to the operator
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's own statement establishes that the operator finances, installs, operates and maintains while the secretariat supervises, and that the city is paid in bike parking rather than cash. The live feed sits on the operator's platform and declares no licence, no terms and no attribution.
Caveat
The conclusion is the entry's own reading of an ownership arrangement neither source characterises in these terms.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025)
  2. GBFS system_information feed, bogota.publicbikesystem.net (live)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Tembici, under contract to and supervised by the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad
Actor types
private
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
Operator-financed; no city budget. The city is paid in kind, in bike parking, for use of public space.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

7 source dossiers

Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas continúa en operación en Bogotá" (29 July 2025) bogota.gov.co · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-c9bad66a4119f877
Publisher
Name not classified · bogota.gov.co
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-07-29
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Authoritative for the operating model and the contract. Carries: "El contrato por medio del cual la empresa Tembici ofrece el servicio de alquiler de bicicletas compartidas tiene vigencia hasta el año 2029"; "Como contraprestación por el uso del espacio público, Bogotá ha recibido una retribución en especie mediante la instalación de cicloparqueaderos"; "El Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas, que a la fecha registra más de 4 millones de viajes"; and that the operator finances, installs, operates and maintains while the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad supervises. Fetched successfully.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
El Tiempo — "Movilidad responde a críticas contra Tembici: sistema de bicicletas compartidas sigue en pie y con contrato vigente" (July 2025) eltiempo.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-af9b225ae0f4afcf
Publisher
Name not classified · eltiempo.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Sole carrier of the decline figure: trips "pasó de 968.174 entre el 1 de enero y el 29 de julio de 2024 a 743.472 en el mismo periodo de 2025, una reducción del 23,2 por ciento". Also carries 110 of ~300 stations vandalised, 63 stations removed, 14 arrests for theft, losses concentrated in Teusaquillo and Santa Fe. Fetched successfully. This is press reporting of the operator's/city's numbers, not an independent audit — hence evidence: media.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GBFS system_information feed, bogota.publicbikesystem.net (live) bogota.publicbikesystem.net · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-cbfa09b1cfb4542a
Publisher
Name not classified · bogota.publicbikesystem.net
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

First-hand check on 26 July 2026: the feed is live and returns system_id "bogota_bike", but operator, url, license_url, terms_url and attribution_organization_name are all null. This is the entry's evidence that the only machine-readable layer is operator-hosted and carries no licence. A v3.0 endpoint is also advertised at /customer/gbfs/v3.0/gbfs.json; the v3.0 system_information path returned 404 to an automated fetch.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Un sueño hecho realidad: arrancó el primer Sistema de Bicis Compartidas" bogota.gov.co · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-9ddc4c50b467e402
Publisher
Name not classified · bogota.gov.co
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-09-30
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Dates the launch to Friday 30 September 2022, with 50% of the system in the first phase (1,500 pedal-assist bikes, 150 stations, 150 hand-cycles, 150 cargo boxes). Not fetched directly — verified through search-result text only; the editor may wish to re-open it before sealing.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — "Bogotá tendrá su sistema de bicis públicas compartidas: 300 estaciones" bogota.gov.co · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-0fdbe7030291c209
Publisher
Name not classified · bogota.gov.co
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-05-04
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Source for the full fleet composition: 300 stations and 3,300 bicycles — 1,500 pedal-assist, 1,500 mechanical, 150 hand-cycles, 150 with cargo boxes, plus 150 fitted with child seats. Not fetched directly — verified through search-result text only.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Xataka Colombia — "¿Una iniciativa en crisis? La realidad sobre el Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas de Bogotá" (2025) xataka.com.co · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-4d40778b6e7a29c2
Publisher
Name not classified · xataka.com.co
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the service footprint used for scale: about 300 stations across Usaquén, Chapinero, Barrios Unidos, Santa Fe and La Candelaria, operating 05:00–22:00, and 2025 tariffs. Corroborates the 23.2% decline and the vandalism figures independently of El Tiempo. Fetched successfully.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad open data — "Estaciones Sistema de Bicicletas Compartidas" datos.movilidadbogota.gov.co · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-39ade570bdc685d8
Publisher
Name not classified · datos.movilidadbogota.gov.co
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Included for the ownership question: the city's own mobility hub carries a station-location layer for the system. HONEST CAVEAT — automated fetch returned only the page title, so record count, update date and licence terms could NOT be verified. The entry therefore claims nothing about this layer beyond its existence being outside the snippet.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici)” — Bogotá, Colombia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bogota-bike-share/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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