While working the graveyard shift in a University of Virginia computer lab 13 years ago, Paul DeMaio had dreams of the open road. On a whim, the avid cyclist and environmentalist entered “public bikes” into a search engine and discovered images of Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s then-new bike-sharing service. One glimpse and DeMaio was hooked. “The idea just blew me away,” he says.… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pages“For a small credit card fee Parisians can swipe the bike annual card at any bike rack, grab an available two-wheeler, ride it across town and leave it for others at their new destination. Bike rental is free for the first 30 minutes, which accounts for 80 percent of all rides,”
That’s correct
“and only a marginal cost for each additional half-hour.”
No , half hours are more and more expensive (beginning at 1.5$ the first additional half-hour) and that’s on purpose.
We now encounter two big problems :
- The “Full Stations Syndrom” (or where to GET RID of one’sVelib) intensifies the users’ complaints about the lot of persistent bugs of the system.
- And vandalism (or pure “sabotage”)
Have a look to non official Velib Forum (strangely there is none official forum) for example :
forum-velib
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