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Velibs sound nice. Except they are financed with, guess what ? Ads? More adds to sell more stuff - including cars.

Not that it prevents me using them...

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 08:20:20 AM EST
Helsinki started this in 2000, but it is for tourists - so far.

http://members.aol.com/humorme81/helsinki.htm

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 09:15:42 AM EST
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i remember amsterdam trying it out in the 60's, but the bikes got nicked after a while.

i think the first song with that great guitar player who later formed 'yes' whose name escapes me right now, oh yeah steve howe, was in a band called 'tomorrow' i saw at the marquee club doing a song called 'my white bicycle' about the phenomenon.

ads will pay for a free variety of services for everyone eventually, it looks like.

in fact it's the only positive thing i can ascribe to advertising (except for that .00000001% that's actually artistic)...sorry, no offence sven!

i'll bet yours is, anyway...

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Nov 26th, 2007 at 09:39:29 AM EST
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Ach, -- the eternal quest for purity.

"Daddy, Daddy, why is the sky blue?"
"Shut up and pedal. I'm late for work."
:-)

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 02:28:30 PM EST
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