Velib in Paris: Balance Sheet for First Year

On Jun 25, 6:12*pm, Dan Gregory
wrote:
John Kane wrote:
The amount of repairs and theft is suprising, especially the theft.
From what I remember of the bikes I had not expected them to be that
popular a target for thieves. *I got a kick out of the tourists riding
them in Casablanca.

When the white provo bikes were liberated in Amsterdam the idea finally
failed to succeed because people stole them. I never understood why,
when it was so easy to take a free bike when you needed one, there were
people who had to keep them to themselves. Probably shut away somewhere.

Were they "stolen" or just not returned? In parts of my town you can
see abandoned grocery shopping carts that people without cars seem to
have "borrowed". There does not seem to be any intend to keep the
carts. Of course the store has a nasty cost in recovering them

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

Were they "stolen" or just not returned? In parts of my town you can
see abandoned grocery shopping carts that people without cars seem to
have "borrowed". There does not seem to be any intend to keep the
carts. Of course the store has a nasty cost in recovering them

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

A few years ago here in Dallas, the city council was discussing the alarming
rates of stolen grocery shopping carts and the abandonment of same across
town. A councilman got up and argued against making this a theft issue
because, "My constituents need the carts to take their groceries home!" As
if that wasn't theft!

Pat in TX