Now, next to GIRA station 550, in Campo Grande, you will find a self-service workshop for quick maintenance of your bike.
Tools you can use, free of charge, to repair your bike and an air pump to inflate tires. Now, next to GIRA's 550th station, in Campo Grandeyou find a workshop self-service to quickly solve those problems that arise on your bike - or even on a GIRA bike.
This workshop, manufactured by the Portuguese company Biciway and installed at that location by EMEL, helps solving common problems such as getting the saddle up or down, cleaning the chain, tuning the brakes, aligning the steering, and adjusting the tire air pressure. While for many bicycle users these are tools that they will already have at home or even carry with them, sometimes the most unexpected situations happen when you least expect them.
EMEL says that this workshop self-service - or "quick maintenance station" - complements the city's cycling infrastructure, along with its GIRA bike-sharing system and BiciParks secure parking network. The installation of this workshop comes shortly after Lisbon City Hall, for its part, placed two "foot-stools" in EntrecamposIt is important to make sure that you have the right hand and foot on the green light, so that anyone waiting for the green light can put their hand and foot down.
This new workshop self-service in Campo Grande, near the bus terminal and GIRA station 550, resulted from a European project entitled SmartHubsin which Lisbon participated along with Setubal, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Helmond, Sant Cugat and Warsaw. SmartHubs aims to develop and validate pilot solutions that turn current transport interfaces into more effective and economically viable mobility hubs.
Lisbon has worked, through EMEL, on a new concept of mobility hubs for short distance trips within the city of Lisbon, around the stations of the GIRA network, with the goals of promoting the use of this shared mobility service and facilitating multimodality in a transport interface. In other words, we tried to understand how a GIRA station could be more than a bike sharing station and gather around it other services and equipment. This thought was worked out together with people, in a small co-creation process that brought together 274 participants. took place at the end of 2021. Thus, during one day, people could pass by GIRA station 550, chosen for the implementation of the pilot, to design with EMEL the "mobility hub of the future". Afterwards, the feasibility of the different ideas generated in this co-creation phase was evaluated, within the constraints and timeframe of the European project.
The workshop now installed at that location was one of outputs that came out of this small participatory process, but EMEL waits, "based on the knowledge generated in this project, come in the future to test other services and solutions in other locations of the city".
Note that this type of workshop self-service are even common in our cities. In Lisbon, there used to be some - they were installed several years ago next to bike paths in a partnership between the City Hall and Galp, but they were eventually removed. Currently, there is one such station in Largo do Intendente, also manufactured by Biciway. Next door, in the municipality of Oeiras, several workshops were also installed by the municipality and by Biciway at strategic points, namely near the beaches.
