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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, they're making 20M / yr from ads on 1,600 bus
shelters: that's about $4,000 per vandalised bike - if they have to replace
5,000 bikes/yr (ie 7,500 in 18 months) - not bad! they should quit
complaining</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ben@creative-engineering.com.au
href="mailto:ben@creative-engineering.com.au">Ben Guymer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au
href="mailto:bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au">bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 13, 2009 2:51
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [bikeqld] Brisbane may be
saddled with bike hire disaster | TheCourier-Mail</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's probably easy to make it look bad... if
bikes were used that much in brissie it would surely be hugely
successful!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It sounds like they mostly just bit off a bit
more than they can chew to me:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>If the stats are right, then each bike has
been used ~2000 times in 18 months (42,000,000 uses, and say, 21,000
bikes (15,000 working + 6,000 broken)) which seems <BR>pretty decent
- at 10,000 k's/yr that's also pretty good - incidentally giving a 7.5km
average trip which also seems reasonable..<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben</DIV></FONT>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=r.hockey@sph.uq.edu.au href="mailto:r.hockey@sph.uq.edu.au">Richard
Hockey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au
href="mailto:bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au">bikeqld@bikeqld.org.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:30
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [bikeqld] Brisbane may be
saddled with bike hire disaster | TheCourier-Mail</DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Check out the video on
the Mx site<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The story itself seems
to have originated in the UK<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><A
href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25039910-3102,00.html">http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25039910-3102,00.html</A></SPAN>
<o:p></o:p></P>
<P><A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7881079.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7881079.stm</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P>R<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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