You can find Bicing station locations on the Barcelona online city map website on web address www.bcn.cat/guia. To show Bicing stations on the map, choose transport options in the left menu of the map. Then the Bicing stations, and other Barcelona public transport services like metro stations, will be shown on the map.
Bicing is very popular with Barcelona residents with over 120,000 subscribers signed up. When Bicing in Barcelona launched in 2007 there were just 750 "bicing" bikes available at 50 pick-up/drop off points in the city located mostly near Metro stations and municipal parking places. In 2012 there were 420 bicing stations and 6,000 Bicing bikes available and in 2012 around 40.000 daily journeys were made which comes to around eleven million journeys a year.
The objective of Bicing was and is to encourage Barcelona residents to make short trips by bicycle to help reduce the number of cars circulating in Barcelona, so many of the Bicing stations are by metro stations, parks and car parks.
Bicing is financed both by users and income from the implementation of green-area parking regulations, which was also designed to encourage cleaner transport in Barcelona.