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Monday, May 30, 2011

New Fad: Bicycles for city transportation

Today I heard a program on NPR that discussed the concept of sharing bikes in Washington D.C., and other major cities in the U.S. and Europe. I quickly remember the pictures I once gazed upon of huge crowds riding bicycles in China. How can an old concept be an innovation in the home of the Industrial Revolution? Are we now to learn from the once proletariat, now expansively wealthy communist China?
What a 'Cultural Revolution'?
Ride to work? Pedal power causes perspiration...

Funny, how things change? Everything old is new... Low tech for me, High-tech for them.
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Bikeshare Program Rides High In D.C.
by Jacob Fenston

May 30, 2011

Listen to the Story
Morning Edition
[4 min 6 sec]
May 30, 2011


Bicycle-sharing schemes are a fixture in European cities like Copenhagen, but now they are taking root on American soil. In Washington, D.C., over the past eight months, the nation's largest bike-share system has become so popular, it may become a victim of its own success.

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/30/136788070/bikeshare-program-rides-high-in-d-c

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