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Movete: Montevideo's Public Bike-Share, 2014–2019

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 12 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-256cba1c0d032f86 quantitative
It opened in June 2014 with eight stations and 80 bikes in the Ciudad Vieja
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What the mapping says
Says Movete opened in June 2014 with eight stations in the Ciudad Vieja and 80 bikes.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 2 clm-f2305043bbb3913a descriptive
sponsored by Ancap and supported by the tourism ministry
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What the mapping says
Says the system was sponsored by Ancap, printed on the mudguards, and supported by the Ministry of Tourism.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 3 clm-89421aaf813d226e descriptive
Riders registered their STM bus card and used it to take a bike from a station; the first half hour was free, and the station screen showed the charge on return
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What the mapping says
Describes registering with the STM card, taking the bike from the station, a free first half hour and the station screen showing the amount to be deducted on return.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 4 clm-1c9fc00560da85a6 quantitative
A year after opening, the city counted 2,672 active users
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What the mapping says
Reports 2,672 active users one year after the service started, according to the city's mobility plan unit.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — Las bicicletas de Ciudad Vieja recorrieron más de 250.000 kilómetros (24 Jun 2015)
Claim 6 clm-3b803fee86412d30 quantitative
in 2019 it published a tender for at least 60 stations and 600 bikes
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What the mapping says
Both reports say that in 2019 the city published tender documents for at least 60 stations and 600 bikes.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
  2. El Observador — Qué pasó con los monopatines y bicicletas públicas en Montevideo (2 Aug 2024)
Claim 8 clm-2cb38b48f3e8d71c descriptive
The contractor, Ingenia Soluciones, did not renew its contract, saying the system was obsolete, and removed the stations
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What the mapping says
Says the contractor Ingenia Soluciones removed the stations and, according to the city official, did not renew because it said the system was obsolete and could pose safety problems for users.
Caveat
The contractor's reasons are as reported by a city official.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 9 clm-e98a4c3475d36cb3 descriptive
the city closed the scheme and refunded the balances on riders' cards
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What the mapping says
Quotes the official saying the city began an orderly strategy to close the system and return to people what they had on the card.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 10 clm-bc805f5af5cb5b54 descriptive
Montevideo was left with neither the old system nor a new one
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What the mapping says
The 2021 report quotes a councillor saying the city was left without the old bikes and without the new system after the bikes were withdrawn before the tender; the 2024 report recounts the removal and the void tender.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
  2. El Observador — Qué pasó con los monopatines y bicicletas públicas en Montevideo (2 Aug 2024)
Claim 11 clm-a2433cdcc9f42b03 descriptive
a registration office that was hard to reach and heavy vandalism
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What the mapping says
Reports former mobility director Juan Vespa calling the first registration office unfriendly and vandalism a very important factor.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)
Claim 12 clm-eb341bdb69304209 descriptive
blamed the empty tender partly on sponsors withdrawing from bike-share after bikes were burned in protests in Santiago de Chile
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What the mapping says
The city official cited bikes being burned in protests and sponsors such as banks and card companies withdrawing from public bike systems as one of the causes that discouraged bids.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021)

Source dossiers and revision state

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Ingenia Soluciones, under contract to the Intendencia de Montevideo
Actor types
city-government, private
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
Sponsored by Ancap and supported by the tourism ministry; riders paid a registration fee and time charges after the first free half hour.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
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5 source dossiers

El Observador — Las bicicletas de Ciudad Vieja recorrieron más de 250.000 kilómetros (24 Jun 2015) elobservador.com.uy · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-e5899e4d0ac2d3e9
Publisher
Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2015-06-24
Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

One year after opening: 2,672 active users had ridden more than 262,000 km on 80 bikes, which had to be returned to one of eight stations in the Ciudad Vieja; registration cost 120 pesos and the first half hour was free. The CO2 figure in the article is a city estimate based on car trips the bikes are assumed to replace.

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Claims linked
El Observador — IMM ampliará red de bicisendas y sistema de bicicletas públicas (30 May 2017) elobservador.com.uy · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-0d3eb7300756aadd
Publisher
Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2017-05-30
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Record last verified
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2026-11-07
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Reports the city's plan to extend Movete from its eight Ciudad Vieja stations to 20 points and double the 100 bikes then available, alongside 20 km of new cycle lanes.

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Claims linked
El Observador — Más bicicletas públicas y sistema sin anclaje, los planes de la IMM para 2019 (21 Jan 2019) elobservador.com.uy · background

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Stable source ID
src-c2661f2c25cb910d
Publisher
Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2019-01-21
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Record last verified
2026-11-07
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2026-11-07
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Reports the mobility director, Pablo Inthamoussu, saying the contract with the private operator was about to expire and the city planned to grow Movete from 80 to 1,000 bikes and add a dockless system; bikes were taken out with the STM card.

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El Observador — IMM busca retomar el sistema de bicicletas públicas que dejó de funcionar en 2019 (22 Sep 2021) elobservador.com.uy · 10 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-d4f6436c7d589f35
Publisher
Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2021-09-22
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Record last verified
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2026-11-07
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Account of Movete's end, from city officials' statements to the departmental council: opened in June 2014 with Ancap sponsorship and tourism-ministry support, eight stations and 80 bikes taken out with the STM card; former officials cited a hard-to-reach registration office and vandalism; the 2019 tender for at least 60 stations and 600 bikes was declared void for lack of bids, partly blamed on sponsors leaving bike-share after bikes were burned in Santiago; the contractor Ingenia Soluciones declined to renew, calling the system obsolete, and removed the stations; the city closed the scheme and refunded card balances; the mobility director said a new tender was planned.

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Claims linked
El Observador — Qué pasó con los monopatines y bicicletas públicas en Montevideo (2 Aug 2024) elobservador.com.uy · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-e3290b085856691b
Publisher
Name not classified · elobservador.com.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-08-02
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
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No local capture recorded
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Retrospective on why Montevideo's shared bikes and e-scooters failed: Movete's 2014 opening, the 2019 tender for at least 60 stations and 600 bikes that received no bids, the removal of bikes and stations, and the e-scooter firms that left by March 2020.

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  • 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.