The Bikes of China

[Werehatrack]

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:57:56 -0500, Paul Hobson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Werehatrack wrote:
>> I used to see a bare spindle sticking out of a crank on a bike at the
>> police auctions fairly regularly, but now that the city here is
>> recycling as many of the bikes as possible, I hardly see any bikes at
>> all.
>
>Just curious: by "recycle" do you mean that they send them to a
>recycling facility or give them away to people who need them?

The city has a shop that refurbishes them, and the bikes are made
available to city employees for use as transportation; the city is
apparently actively encouraging the use of bikes, particularly for
short trips, instead of cars. Our current mayor has been pretty vocal
in his encouragement of bikes as an alternate form of transport.
Happily, becuse we have quite a few cops on bikes, the police here
tend to have a more rational view of cycling as well.


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[Paul Hobson]

Werehatrack wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:57:56 -0500, Paul Hobson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Werehatrack wrote:
>>
>>>I used to see a bare spindle sticking out of a crank on a bike at the
>>>police auctions fairly regularly, but now that the city here is
>>>recycling as many of the bikes as possible, I hardly see any bikes at
>>>all.
>>
>>Just curious: by "recycle" do you mean that they send them to a
>>recycling facility or give them away to people who need them?
>
>
> The city has a shop that refurbishes them, and the bikes are made
> available to city employees for use as transportation; the city is
> apparently actively encouraging the use of bikes, particularly for
> short trips, instead of cars. Our current mayor has been pretty vocal
> in his encouragement of bikes as an alternate form of transport.
> Happily, becuse we have quite a few cops on bikes, the police here
> tend to have a more rational view of cycling as well.

May I ask what city this is? Seems like a neat program that I'd like
read more about.

\\paul

 

[Werehatrack]

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:25:20 -0500, Paul Hobson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Werehatrack wrote:
>> On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:57:56 -0500, Paul Hobson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>Just curious: by "recycle" do you mean that they send them to a
>>>recycling facility or give them away to people who need them?
>>
>>
>> The city has a shop that refurbishes them, and the bikes are made
>> available to city employees for use as transportation; the city is
>> apparently actively encouraging the use of bikes, particularly for
>> short trips, instead of cars. Our current mayor has been pretty vocal
>> in his encouragement of bikes as an alternate form of transport.
>> Happily, becuse we have quite a few cops on bikes, the police here
>> tend to have a more rational view of cycling as well.
>
>May I ask what city this is? Seems like a neat program that I'd like
>read more about.

Houston. There's relatively little publicity about it; there were
never huge numbers of bikes getting auctioned anyway. OTOH, cycling
continues to gain in popularity around here, to the point that my
daughter and I were hardly the only ones pedalling through downtown
late this afternoon. The bus drivers were even polite when we were
running along in their route.
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