Comments for Washington, D.C. Gets Smart With Bike Sharing at http://www.carectomy.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.carectomy.com Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.carectomy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=428&Itemid=9#pc_639 The bike program in Paris was great. I find the D.C. maximum of three hours to be interesting but in some ways I like how Paris did it better. After the minimal initial fee it was a progressive scale of free for 30 minutes, 1 euro first 1/2, 2 for the second, and so on. I found I could get almost anywhere in 30 minutes but it never cost more than 1 euro to do it. With European gas prices that was amazing. I just hope they implement this in NYC and Philly. - gren Mon, 26 May 2008 00:19:13 +0100 http://www.carectomy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=428&Itemid=9#pc_555 While in Europe I also bike shared with automatic systems in Stockholm & Oslo (powered by ClearChannel Advertising) as well as Marseille (which, among a few other bike-sharing French cities, is powered by JCDecaux advertising, and uses bikes similar to Lyon and Paris). Copenhagen also has a popular, but more rudamentary coin-deposit bikesharing sytem, with a shopping-cart deposit system. Also, in Germany, most major cities use the DB national train company's automatic bikesharing service. Bikes are located outside many train stations and on corners throughout the cities. You simply tap the bike's code into your cell phone, beam it up, and the satellite unlocks the bike. When you're done, leave it on a corner somewhere and lock it up again. - Louis Haywood Fri, 02 May 2008 17:22:00 +0100