[bikeqld] NYTimes: Reality Deals Setback to Paris Bike Program

[Ian Lister]

The NY Times must be having a slow news week and scraping around the 
bottom of their old press release basket looking for something to beat up. 
The BBC ran a very similar story back in February:

http://www.bikeqld.org.au/pipermail/bikeqld/2009-February/006090.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7881079.stm

Allegedly both respected media outlets are just doing JC Decaux's dirty PR 
work in its contract negotiations:

http://www.bikeqld.org.au/pipermail/bikeqld/2009-February/006104.html
http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/12/reports-of-velibs-demise-greatly-exaggerated/

Cheers,

Ian

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Scott Rowan wrote:
> I don't think we'll see anything like this level of stolen/damaged bikes here 
> (though there is bound to be some) but an interesting read nonetheless.
>
> Scott
>
> Reality Deals Setback to Paris Bike Program
>
> Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle-rental system, has inspired a new urban ethos 
> for the era of climate change, but it has also attracted some old urban 
> curses: vandalism and theft.
>
> http://s.nyt.com/u/WK8
>
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