déposer à une borne - meaning

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I have heard the following sentence in the TV series Marseille:

Tu me déposes à un arrêt de bus ou à une borne, s'il te plait.

Context: A girl is taking a ride a with a friend and tells him the sentence above.

What does "borne" mean here? I have looked at https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/borne/10264 and https://www.wordreference.com/fren/borne , but I could not found the meaning of the word in this context.

Toto · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-01 13:04:42Z

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Étant donné le contexte, ce pourrait être une « station de taxi. »

answered Feb 1, 2020 at 13:04

Toto

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So "borse" can be used to refer to a taxi stand (= "station de taxi(s)" in French) ?
– Alan Evangelista
Feb 5, 2020 at 11:02
@AlanEvangelista: We say “Borne d'appel” usualy present at taxi station.
– Toto
Feb 5, 2020 at 11:26
What is a "borne d'appel" in this context? I only know them as public emergency telephones in the street/road (fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borne_d%E2%80%99appel) .
– Alan Evangelista
Feb 5, 2020 at 12:14
@AlanEvangelista: have a look at taxis-paris.fr/telephone-bornes-taxis.htm
– Toto
Feb 5, 2020 at 12:21
Thanks for the link. Is this still popular with the advent of Uber and similar mobile apps?
– Alan Evangelista
Feb 5, 2020 at 13:05

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jlliagre · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-05 10:55:48Z

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It is certainly a levélo rental station (a bike rental service similar to the Parisian Vélib).

The following picture shows what is called la borne principale which is present in every location:

answered Feb 1, 2020 at 22:40

jlliagre

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Thanks for the answer! It'd be nice to include in the answer that levélo is a bike rental service.
– Alan Evangelista
Feb 5, 2020 at 10:52
By the way, I was in Marseilles last week-end and asked the question there and the answer was unanimously about this borne.
– jlliagre
Feb 5, 2020 at 10:57

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