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 |  Subject: Great Idea From Paris  Sat May 22, 2010 9:31 pm | |
| Vélib
On July 15, 2007 Paris debuted the world's largest self-service "bicycle transit system" called Vélib outdoing previously designed bike share programs. Vélib is a balance of scale and functionality, clocking in with more than 20,000 bikes, and 1,451 docking stations, which are never more than 1,000 feet apart. As a result, Vélib is effectively a new form of public transportation that has generated more than 25 million new bicycle trips in its first year, 10% of which substitute former car trips.Today the program celebrates its first anniversary. And, throughout the year cities across the globe have kept a close eye on the progress of this environmentally-friendly public transportation mode. Overall, bike-share programs have proven to increase public transportation options at a relatively low cost to the city. Any registered user can "borrow" a bike from a station for a nominal fee and return it to any other station in the system. In Paris, Vélib has saved the city 10 million km in car trips, roughly equal to $10 million in savings. With 200,000 Parisians paying the city $50 each for an annual Velib pass, this has yielded an additional $10 million in revenues. Beyond economics, Paris has seen tremendous traffic calming and air quality benefits from this public bicycle system. Here in the States, a bike share program is about to kick off in Washington DC, and Chicago and San Francisco are in the process of implementation as well. Last week The New York City Department of Transportation announced its plans to examine the possibility of creating a bike share program. In April, I had the chance to visit Paris with Transportation Alternatives' Caroline Samponaro to learn about Vélib. Check out this video to get a picture of it yourself. Oh, and Happy Birthday Vélib!Article by Elizabeth PressI tried to post the video here,but couldn't... 
I did send it to my FB page..maybe c/thru can figure out how to get it here...??  | |
| | | | Joebert
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Sun May 23, 2010 4:53 am | |
| I think it's a great Idea. It wouldn't work here because of the hills but there are several towns it would work great. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Sun May 23, 2010 3:57 pm | |
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| | | | Joebert
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Mon May 24, 2010 1:52 am | |
| Wait, thinking back what great ideas have they had? And are we going to have to come to their rescue again in the future. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Mon May 24, 2010 9:16 pm | |
| - Joebert wrote:
- Wait, thinking back what great ideas have they had? And are we going to have to come to their rescue again in the future.
they didn't even invent french fries | |
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Wed May 26, 2010 7:47 pm | |
| Why does the new French navy have glass bottomed boats? So they can see the old French navy...  | |
| | | | c/thru
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Thu May 27, 2010 10:08 am | |
|  OK now...you all do know our free host is a French company ? you might wanna use pig-latin when poking at them | |
| | | | KK
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Thu May 27, 2010 4:33 pm | |
| - c/thru wrote:
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OK now...you all do know our free host is a French company ?
you might wanna use pig-latin when poking at them the enchfre, uckse | |
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Fri May 28, 2010 6:24 pm | |
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| | | | Joebert
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| | Subject: Re: Great Idea From Paris Sat May 29, 2010 1:08 pm | |
| I was in France once and once was enough. | |
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