[Bikies] NYTimes: More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane

2017-07-30 Thread Scott Morris Rose via Bikies
Here's a fluffy piece with some nice photos about the rise of bicycle use in Le Grosse Pomme: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html I happen to have briefly been in Paris recently, and it was interesting to observe the way bicycles are used there -

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

2017-07-30 Thread Scott Morris Rose via Bikies
Evidently the bikies list supports not the attachment. Here's stock images to stand in: https://assets.fastcompany.com/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto,fl_lossy/fc/3068900-inline-i-1-with-this-stationless-bike-share-system-you-can-park-your-bike-anywhere.jpg

[Bikies] dockless bike share

2017-07-30 Thread Scott Morris Rose via Bikies
I was a founding member of Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city, which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the