paris bikes

[forest]

Hey should we do this

france24

[Pidge]

Hey should we do this

france24

It's a bloody brilliant idea. A group of us used it in Munich, and it worked excellently. I believe that something like this is on the way in either Dublin City Council or Dun Laoighaire-Rathdown.

Still, it's no Brompton...

[johnfás]

Dublin City is getting 1,000 free to use bikes which will be maintained by some advertising company in exchange for them getting to put up several thousand billboards free of charge.

[rockofcashel]

They've been doing this in Holland for years. They were the "white bikes", and there was no payment involved. You just took the bike to where ever you wanted to go, and when you were finished, you left it against a public railing, and someone else took it off again.

I hate to say it though, in Ireland we'd probably just wreck the bikes. I can't understand the Irish mentality sometimes.

[alonso]

DCC have whored the public space to advertisers JC Decaux in exchange for 500 bikes and a signage scheme. DLR are looking into a similar scheme. I'm a cyclist in Dublin, and if the powers that be really gave a toss about cycling they'd build safe and comfortable cycle lanes, they'd put in contraflow lanes on the inordinate amount of one-way streets, and enforce speed limits. And on the other side, any time a cyclist breaks a red light they should be publicly flogged by their fellow 2 wheelers for making us all look like dicks.

The bike scheme being introduced here is a brilliant idea, but it's an awful shame it took a corporate body to propose it and use it for their own benefit

[DerekOwens]

There was actually a pilot programme done by Dublin City Council Rock, of only a couple of bikes if I remember right. They were nicked within hours sadly.

[CookieMonster]

They've been doing this in Holland for years. They were the "white bikes", and there was no payment involved. You just took the bike to where ever you wanted to go, and when you were finished, you left it against a public railing, and someone else took it off again.

I hate to say it though, in Ireland we'd probably just wreck the bikes. I can't understand the Irish mentality sometimes.

Quite true, rock.

When I saw this thread title I thought Pat Rabbitte had been making ill advised jokes again.

[forest]

john have you a link for the dublin story

One way to stop bike theft is a chip and pin credit card system or some other form of getting a users permit
Like you have to apply for it in person with ID

[rockofcashel]

There was actually a pilot programme done by Dublin City Council Rock, of only a couple of bikes if I remember right. They were nicked within hours sadly.

See.. I hate that about Irish society, I really do.

Might sound like a cliché but part of what I consider my "republicanism", is my commitment to civic duty. That sort of ************************e happening really annoys me, and especially the fact that I've been in other, what I consider more mature countries to be honest, and that doesn't happen to anything like the scale it would here.

Next time, they should loudly advertise the scheme, and watch the bikes 24 hours a day for a week. Anyone robs them, give them 12 months in jail as a warning to others.

[alonso]

massive discussion here:

http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=5715

How one will look on Fairview strand



isn't it beautiful?

A brochure for the entire scheme was available briefly online, but as with all things city council related, online access proved neither convenient nor permanent

One ************************load of googling later:

http://www.dublincity.ie/Images/Appendi ... -48977.pdf

they saved the worst part to the last page- everything else is excellent