Half-joking here: perhaps make them undesirable by painting them in some hideous color, like rental shoes at a bowling alley?
(Although with bikes, there is always the problem that parts are valuable; it might stop people from stealing the frame but it wouldn't stop them from taking, say, the wheels.) Isabel On 7/19/07, Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think this is a dream worth dreaming for University City, at least. Experiments with free public bikes go back 40 years, to Amsterdam. The challenge is to make sure the public bikes are cheap enough, sturdy enough, plentiful enough -- but not desirable enough to be worth stealing. The end solution may be very culture-specific; what works in Slovakia may not work in Spruce Hill. But this is a biking neighborhood, to be sure. If I could walk down to the corner and pick up a lousy public bike, ride it to 40th & Walnut to see a movie or buy something, then ride back, I'd do it! In fact, the worse the bike, the harder I'd have to work, so the better it'd be for my health. -- Tony West ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
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