Comments on: Is Bike-Sharing Becoming Bourgeois? http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/is-bike-sharing-becoming-bourgeois/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:11:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: eric britton http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/is-bike-sharing-becoming-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-19872 eric britton Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:11:45 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=17689#comment-19872 Denis Baupin, deputy mayor of Paris, who actaully started the whole Velib proejct here is the guy to listen to on this. If you wnat the full story, check it out at www.worldstreets.org. THere is a lot of mis-information floating around on this topic. It would be a pity for it to be confused with fact. Best from Paris. Eric Britton Denis Baupin, deputy mayor of Paris, who actaully started the whole Velib proejct here is the guy to listen to on this. If you wnat the full story, check it out at http://www.worldstreets.org. THere is a lot of mis-information floating around on this topic. It would be a pity for it to be confused with fact. Best from Paris. Eric Britton

]]> By: Green Journal http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/is-bike-sharing-becoming-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-19852 Green Journal Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:25:26 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=17689#comment-19852 Still think that France's initiative is wonderfull. Not sure where this vandalism comes from but more countries should get involved by proposing the same service. Still think that France’s initiative is wonderfull. Not sure where this vandalism comes from but more countries should get involved by proposing the same service.

]]> By: MIKE RUBBO http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/is-bike-sharing-becoming-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-19849 MIKE RUBBO Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:27:40 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=17689#comment-19849 Despite the difficulties such as the article on Velibs describes, Bike share schemes are spreading round the world at a furious pace. Montreal has just had a great summer with it's 6000 Bixis on the streets, dispensed from solar powered docking stations. (Bixi means bike and taxi combined) Bixi is now selling its design to London, Boston, and Melbourne. But as I found when I went to a presentation on the Melbourne scheme, another huge problem looms locally, and it's not vandalism. Australia is one of the few countries which give adults no choice when it comes to wearing a helmet. This has not been much of an issue in recent years. Aussie riders have got used to their hard hats. But I found out that there's no way of dispensing a helmet with a Velib type bike and so, even thought contracts have been signed for Melbourne and Brisbane., no one know how to solve this helmet problem . In the movie on my blog, Bike Share and Helmets Don't Mix? you see Alison Cohen who works for the winning bidder, the US company ALTA, being very candid about what they face. No one has ever brought bike share to a city with compulsory helmets. It would be tragic if we missed out since bike share brings a whole new population to utility cycling. Can we hope that the helmet law will be revisited, at least for this type of slow safe bike? The Movie is on my blog, And So To Bike http://datillo.wordpress.com/ Mikerubbo Despite the difficulties such as the article on Velibs describes, Bike share schemes are spreading round the world at a furious pace.

Montreal has just had a great summer with it’s 6000 Bixis on the streets, dispensed from solar powered docking stations. (Bixi means bike and taxi combined)

Bixi is now selling its design to London, Boston, and Melbourne. But as I found when I went to a presentation on the Melbourne scheme, another huge problem looms locally, and it’s not vandalism.

Australia is one of the few countries which give adults no choice when it comes to wearing a helmet. This has not been much of an issue in recent years. Aussie riders have got used to their hard hats.

But I found out that there’s no way of dispensing a helmet with a Velib type bike and so, even thought contracts have been signed for Melbourne and Brisbane., no one know how to solve this helmet problem .

In the movie on my blog, Bike Share and Helmets Don’t Mix? you see Alison Cohen who works for the winning bidder, the US company ALTA, being very candid about what they face. No one has ever brought bike share to a city with compulsory helmets.

It would be tragic if we missed out since bike share brings a whole new population to utility cycling. Can we hope that the helmet law will be revisited, at least for this type of slow safe bike?

The Movie is on my blog, And So To Bike http://datillo.wordpress.com/
Mikerubbo

]]> By: Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2 | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/is-bike-sharing-becoming-bourgeois/comment-page-1/#comment-19821 Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2 | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:10 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=17689#comment-19821 [...] Mon dieu! Why are vandals are putting a big dent in Paris’ bike-sharing program? They see the bikes as bourgeois, reports The New York Times — maybe because you have to present a credit card to own one? (Hat tip: Triple Pundit.) [...] [...] Mon dieu! Why are vandals are putting a big dent in Paris’ bike-sharing program? They see the bikes as bourgeois, reports The New York Times — maybe because you have to present a credit card to own one? (Hat tip: Triple Pundit.) [...]

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