French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality

Just as Le Corbusier 's white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Velib', Paris 's bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change .

[Captain A]

Typical Liberal leftist social program...a total waste of tax money with NO benifit....each bike cost 3,500 Euros and there were 20,600 of them. Now 80% are stolen broke or missing...Who will be held responsible for this complete FAILURE and waste of money??? Not a single government official! All of those government Idiots that were at the starting ceremony should be in jail for fruad and failure.

I posted about this when I read about this program and I knew this would happen. Human nature will always kill such a program. If a person doesn't have a monetary investment in a project like this he and everyone else that uses it wont give a crap about it. This is the same mentality that just caused this sever recession in the U.S. People were allowed to get home loans that had NO business getting one. They (Liberals in Government )changed the rules that banks had to qualify people for a home loan...like a job, good income a down payment. Idiots could get a loan and buy a house with no ability to repay the note and when things went bad they are just walking away and leaving the tax payer to bail out the banks. Barney Frank - D (Gay Liberal leftist) and Chris Dodd - D ( fornicator and Liberal leftist) were the senators that forced the Freddy mac and fanny mae the Sudo Government federal home loan division to make the home loans to the Po'...so everyone can have the American dream...even though they didnt have to work for it. So all these Po' people walked away and the bottom droped out of the housing market. These two Idiots are ironically now in charge of the new regulation and bail out of the mess that they created!!!

What I am saying is that if you don't have a vested interest in a project like this no one cares...Bikes will be abused, Stolen, broken and sold on the black market.

[Captain B]

Agree

[Robespierre]

I didn't know that Captain A was paying his taxes in Paris.

By the sound of it, that's what it looks like!!

LOL