Vote for Cycling on May 1st

There is a good podcast on the biek show about the velib.

In Paris they started off with about 8000 then rolled out another 5000 or 8000. It works because they have saturated the city center.

For London they propose 4000 over central London an area much larger than central Paris. Check out the podcast. It sounds like the London version would be the typical British role out of a system. Only half do the job hence it fails ences it wastes loads of money and everyone then goes what a wast of money we won't try any thing like that again. It is one of these things that needs to be done properally or not at all.

Thats both sad and frustrating to hear. Im sure there would be issues with the system (bike thefts etc) but I really believe a system like this could benefit London greatly. Perhaps there are greater issues concerning current cyclists but encouraging more people onto bikes will make the roads safer and put more impetus on the government to create better cycling routes.