Melbourne Council wants to startup 'free bike' schemeikes

Page 3, today's 'other' paper (Hun)

Councillor So wants to adopt the same scheme use in Copenhagen where you use swipe cards or coins to get access to supplied bikes for short trip usage

Pic of the little guy riding up Swanston Walk (where was Livinia?) and of the Danish bikes.

jjj

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

G'day,

Bewdy...I could do with another bike........Wouldn't the money they will spend on replacing these things after they get pinched, be better off spent on English lessons for councillor So?,

cheers,


Hitchy

Tad harsh Hitchy. He's probably done more for melburnians than everyone on this forum put together!
Still, Livinia in lycra. Now there's an Ad campaign...

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

G'day,

I'm not having a go at what he might/might not have done for melb....I just can't understand him!...He was on 3AW this morning talking about this idea.....I don't think anyone was the wiser after listening?

Livinia in Lycra.....yeah Ok....but she could do with a visit from the 'tit fairy',

cheers,

Hitchy

Hey Twitchy, it's painfully obvious to all that chivalry is not a strong personality trait of yours.

".....In giving and receiving love's solaces let modesty be ever present. ....Thou shalt be in all things polite and courteous...."

ie: stop thinking with the *little head*


Back to free bikes, um, good concept, but human nature being what it is, not entirely convinced of how Melbourne Council is going to manage logistics of the proposed scheme.

Fit the bikes with GPS linked to remote controlled bottom bracket immobilisers?

Make them so bog ugly that no one would want to nick one from the CBD area?

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Noli nothis permittere te terere

I agree. 99% of people living or visiting the CBD already own bikes so would only affect tourists who love the trams more anyway...

The copenhagen ones are fitted with GPS

Their examples are so distinctive it would be hard to get away with nicking them
I do think the City council could probably spend the money better by bettering existing cicling facilities. IE proper ways for you to enter the CBD (far too many directions have no safe entry path). more bike lanes, parking facilities and (dream-of-dream) an extra carriage on all trains to carry bikes!.

Folding bike sales have apparently jumped 20+% since the congestion toll was introduced in London. Cycling has increased by 30%!!!

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

Folding bikes rock. I was checking one out in Lorimer St early Friday evening. *ahem*

Got an idea with the BMX.....long head stem, long seat post, 170mm cranks, hub gears, angle grinder, spare hinge hasps.

Seriously though, if you're interested in bike routes in the Melbourne CBD, check this out:
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/inde...e=infopage.cfm

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Noli nothis permittere te terere

Oi,

don't have a go at me!...I just responded to Flyingdutch's post & his choice of 'lycra wench'!..........I felt abit like Rex Hunt when I wrote that, you know....'cast out a line, then reel 'em in'. Thanks for being predictable, the world needs more P.C nazi's!

cheers,

Hitchy

Hitchy

Now, now gentlemen

not sure what youre getting at with the bmx stuff cfsmtb,
and i realise there are maps, the problem is more the incompleteness of the number of paths about the CBD

the sooner they bring in that congestion charge the better!

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

LOL, ever seen a folding bike? Just a silly jape about making a el cheapo DIY one. Novel concept, but buying a birdy, moulton or bike friday would be a far wiser option.

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Noli nothis permittere te terere

hi

is it just me or does the bike map show a bike trail ON citylink top map J13 http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/upload/CityOfMelbourne-
BikeMap2003.pdf

and a really useful path at O6

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is Melb city council behind critical mass

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Don't about that Dallas, but I'm off to dig out the large "wall" map version I have filed somewhere.

Anyone who's been to Bike Now would of seen this map just inside the door on the window. Hmmm, this thread is getting very tangential, free bikes, GPS, chivalry and Clown Hall conspiracies.

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Noli nothis permittere te terere

Do you mean this one?

[URL=http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/upload/CityOfMelbourne-BikeMap2003.pdf[/URL]


Aaaah the joys of pdf. So easy to edit...

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:30:14 GMT, Hitchy
<usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> wrote:

>Bewdy...I could do with another bike........Wouldn't the money they will spend on replacing these
>things after they get pinched, be better off spent on English lessons for councillor So?,

English Grammar 101 would be a good start..

PC

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:43:27 +1100, "Dallas Goldburg" <mith@tpg.com>
wrote:

>is it just me or does the bike map show a bike trail ON citylink top map J13

Underneath CityStink actually.. It's slippery, it floods easily, my ex flatmate used to drive his
Mondeo up and down that stretch (there was just enough clearence in the underpasses to avoid
scratching his side mirrors), but yeah, it exists..

>and a really useful path at O6

Those who use it know to shortcut off it near the far right and cut across to Royal Parade..

>is Melb city council behind critical mass

Nope.. Critical Mass in Melbourne is sponsored by GenericSnackFoods(tm)..

PC