The Beijing government has came up with a bicycle rental program to encourage citizens to take up a bike and ride the Bejing streets, Beijing Workers Stadium and Forbidden City. Bikes are going for 20 yuan per day or 100 yuan for one year, 400 yuan is required as deposit. Beijing Bicycle Rental Services, the company behind this rental scheme, hopes to push 50 000 bicycles for rent during the Beijing Summer Games.

By the start of the games in August 2008 there should be some 50,000 bikes available to Beijing residents, and visitors to the Olympics. People can dial a hotline to rent a bike and if they get a puncture, can exchange it at any rental station.

Obviously an effort to reduce the air pollution problem.

Via BikeRadar.com