Here is an interesting article from the New York Times about the bicycle rental program in Paris.
New York Times article about bicycle rentals in France
I have been noticing more and more Vélô Toulouse bicycles around town that have been abandoned and/or damaged. It is a great program, the country wide bicycle rental programs in France, but the article states that 80% of Paris’ bicycles have had to be repaired or replaced. That’s a huge number. It sounds as if they didn’t think any bicycles would be stolen or damaged. I mean, I would have predicted at the beginning a fair number of bicycles would be damaged and stolen and that would taper off when people got used to the idea AND police cracked down on abusers. We’ll see what happens.
I wonder if there are statistics about Toulouse’s bicycle rental program, Vélô Toulouse. More importantly, I wonder what steps are being taken to make sure fewer bicycles are damaged and/or stolen. It seems like an integral part of the program, but one that was “overlooked”.
5 things that should be done to people who damage or steal Vélô Toulouse bicycles
- sensors in the seat of the bike will turn on and zap you
- the lock built into the bicycle will automatically unfoil, lock the bike and the abuser to the nearest bakery until the police can come and grind you into flour to be used by the bakery
- the nearest crowd should be “moved by the spirit” of retribution and act “by any means necessary” to protect the bike
- the parking place of your car should be published in the local newspaper so others “moved by the spirit” of by any means necessary can do whatever is necessary to your car for revenge
- insert your devious ideas here!
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