These are all over the world, and planned all over the US already, including being deployed in Washington DC already. I have not used any in North America, but I did use the velodi in Dijon for a week and really enjoyed it: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com/search?q=velodi They are reasonably well thought out bikes, great for short hops, hard to steal parts off of and pretty well secure in the stand. I think they would work in most US cities reasonably well. I think the whole, "it would not work in my high crime scary city" is pretty much BS. I think they have plans to launch in Albuquerque, San Francisco and a few othe US cities as well. Has anyone actually used the DC system? The key is having a ton of places to picj up and return bikes, initial reports out of DC is that they were a little light in the total number of bikes. They need to be ubiquitous. Tarik
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jim Cloud <cloud...@aol.com> wrote: > > I read this article on Salon.com today, from a blogger regarding a > bicycle transportation system being implemented in Canada. > > http://open.salon.com/blog/juliet_waters/2009/05/13/a_bicycle_built_for_35_million > > It makes me wonder how long something like this would last here in > Tucson, before it was completely destroyed by vandalism or theft. > Probably about two weeks, max. > > Jim > > > -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
