Ode to incredibly smart city transportation.

The public bicycle system in Montreal isn’t anything new to the world… except for us Americans. It’s apparently been around for over fifty years but only has recently been seen in the States as of 2006.

It basically works like this: you swipe your card and pay a $5 fee (Montreal’s price), take a bike, ride it around town, and drop it off at any of the hundreds of other stations around the city.

The result? Everyone is cycling. Everyone. For only $5/24 hours, $28/1 month and $78/one year, it just makes sense.