Bogotá's Shared Bike System (Tembici)

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.

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