Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/03
By: Liu Chien-pang and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Sept. 3 (CNA) Public bicycle rental service provider YouBike said Saturday that it will extend a compensatory free rental program through Sept. 5, because bad weather has prevented many people from getting compensated for the suspension of its service between Wednesday and noon Friday due to a system glitch.

Users in the six counties and cities that were affected by the suspension — Taipei, New Taipei, Hsinchu, Taoyuan, Taichung and Changhua — will be able to continue to rent YouBikes free of charge for the first hour, in addition to the originally scheduled period between Friday and Saturday, YouBike Co. said.

The normal rental fee, which takes effect from the second hour of usage, will resume from 11:59 p.m. Sept. 5, it said.     [FULL  STORY]