PubliBike

A journey of discovery with a rented bike

Rob and Silvie are at Lugano train station. For the first time in their lives. They’re American tourists on a European tour and have given themselves 24 hours to explore Lugano. But how to visit all the sights in such a short time? “No problem,” a PostBus driver at the train station tells them. “You can rent a PubliBike for a day for only 10 francs,” he explains, before showing them the rental station. And there are quite a few in Lugano: the network will be expanded continuously until summer 2017. The goal is 46 stations with a total of 560 bikes, half of them e-bikes. The networks in Berne and Zurich will also soon be expanded.

PubliBike is the ideal complement to private and public transport. Subscribers and spontaneous users can rent bicycles all over Switzerland, and it is easy to find available bikes with the PubliBike App or on the Internet.