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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 |
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Velib in Paris: Balance Sheet for First Year
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 |
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