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Paris expanding Velib scheme

Chips Lovell · 2009-07-02 11:44:20

They're now rolling it out into the suburbs, adding another 300 hire stations and 3,300 bikes.

02-07-2009 11:44am

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They're now rolling it out into the suburbs, adding another 300 hire stations and 3,300 bikes.

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#2 02-07-2009 11:45am

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Ah yeah but it's an unmitigated disaster

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#3 02-07-2009 12:08pm

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el tonto wrote: »

They're now rolling it out into the suburbs, adding another 300 hire stations and 3,300 bikes.

Proof positive that the scheme is a failure.

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#4 02-07-2009 1:07pm

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Ye both got in ahead of me there :pac:

We need Kona :rolleyes: on this thread!

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#5 02-07-2009 1:13pm

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Great news for cycling. Even better news for JC Decaux who have managed to pass the cost of the vandalised bikes on to the city of Paris.

They should do the same here, unless they're too busy not removing their billboards of course.

Pig in a poke.

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#6 02-07-2009 1:15pm

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i love it, the thread stayed properly ontopic for just the opening post!

Anyway expansion good for the users, hopefully ours can be expanded out signfigantly once it starts operating.

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#7 03-07-2009 8:52pm

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kenmc wrote: »

Ah yeah but it's an unmitigated disaster

Yes, it's an unmitigated disaster. Is that why they are adding 300 hire stations and 3,300 bikes?

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#8 03-07-2009 11:12pm

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Looks like someone forgot to put on their sarcasm specs
You should've been here a week ago.... Kona was preaching from the hilltops about how the paris velib had failed.

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#9 04-07-2009 5:31am

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Nice,France is rolling out its VeloBleu scheme on the 17th July. (Official site is not quite there yet)

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#10 04-07-2009 7:22pm

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kenmc wrote: »

Looks like someone forgot to put on their sarcasm specs
You should've been here a week ago.... Kona was preaching from the hilltops about how the paris velib had failed.

I guess I'm so used to people calling it a failure it blinded me to the sarcasm.

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#11 05-07-2009 8:09am

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disaster? sorry just back from barcelona where they have a similar setup as they are planning for dublin and its a huge success, everyone is using the bikes and they have drop off points all over the city, if they can get that to work in dublin it would be amazing, was in barcelona a few years before they had the scheme and you can really notice the differnce now, the city is transformed, fantastic idea, just need to deal with the scumbags that destroy all aspects of irish life but as far as the bikes go fair play to whoever gave it the go ahead and good luck

by the way the bikes in barcelona may not be carbon fibre ultegra equipped machines but they are perfect to suit all walks of life, sturdy with lights, mudguards and solid wheels . enough to do the job.

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#12 05-07-2009 8:22am

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I got a VELIB in Paris. Excellent Excellent, went around all of paris. Only thing for us Irish (who drive on other side) take you time, and watch out a crossings.

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