Biking in Paris: a bumpy road, with an optimistic ending
A crash kept Taylor Griggs from fully immersing herself in the hottest cycling city in the world.
Paris
I’m headed to Europe! Pre-trip thoughts and a request for ideas
It’s almost like a rite of passage for any aspiring transportation reporter.
Dispatch from Paris: Reading BikePortland from the TGV
Reading about US transportation issues while in a country which has already taken bold steps toward reduced car use is disorienting.
Postcards from Paris: Mixtes, street scenes, and a budding bike network
A mind, once blown, will never go back to its previous shape.
While Portland dreams, Paris does (and other thoughts on our freeway problem)
We could do this if we wanted too.(Image: JC Choblet) Oh Paris, first you helped me fall in love with bike sharing thanks to your revolutionary Velib system. Now you’ve captured my heart once again by giving your iconic riverfront back to the people. I can only hope it sparks as many copycats as Velib … Read more
“Vélib is here to stay,” say officials
A Vélib bicycle(Photo: austinevan on Flickr) We reported yesterday on a BBC article predicting the demise of Paris’s Vélib bicycle sharing program due to theft, vandalism, and increased costs. Streetsblog has done some research of their own and discovered that the threat may not be so great as the BBC article makes it seem.
Paris’ bike-sharing system “unsustainable” says operator
[NOTE: Streetsblog has a different perspective on this story. They say Velib corporate sponsor JCDecaux is manipulating this story in the media to their benefit. Read more here.] Over half the original fleet of 15,000 specially made bicycles have disappeared, presumed stolen…vandalism and theft are taking their toll…The company which runs the scheme, JCDecaux, says … Read more