Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Five-Thousand-Euro Bicycles

Bike sharing station, piazza Cavour, Livorno
The Municipality has just spent 127.000 Euro for four bike sharing stations and a total of 24 bicycles: it is not too difficult to calculate their cost at 5.290 Euro each. Let us hope that these bikes will not be stolen or damaged beyond repair in a short time...

See also: Waste of Money - Bike Sharing - A Diabolical Endeavour

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16 comments:

  1. Stefan JanssonNovember 21, 2012 at 12:12 AM

    Wow. My bike costed me 800 Euro. And for that money you could buy a electric bike today.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM

    oh !

    Wonderful though where alike is possible, and happening.

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  3. Luis GomezNovember 21, 2012 at 1:46 AM

    Bike sharing has work wonderfully in here. Hopefully it will for you as well.

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  4. JackNovember 21, 2012 at 3:04 AM

    This idea is great. I hope it is a big success and that the bad guys in your town will decide that bike theft is neither cool nor rewarding.

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  5. RandyNovember 21, 2012 at 3:34 AM

    Those are a great idea. All cities should have these.

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  6. tapirgalNovember 21, 2012 at 7:01 AM

    Am I missing something? While a bike share is a wonderful idea, how can the cost be so high for a bike that will be used by anyone and is left to the elements and the vandals? I think I paid 1/19th of that amount for my hybrid and it's a GREAT BIKE! (Still reading and redoing the math in case I missed something.) I suppose the station is part of the cost....

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  7. cieldequimperNovember 21, 2012 at 8:19 AM

    So now you have your Vélibs too. I don't know what the vandalism rate is in Paris but they are a huge success...

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  8. AndyNovember 21, 2012 at 10:28 AM

    This is something that is also catching on in Canada.

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  9. DinaNovember 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM

    Seems like a lot of money. I hope the right people use and enjoy the bikes.
    In Tel Aviv it works well.

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  10. PerthDailyPhotoNovember 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM

    Nice line up VP..and expensive!!

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  11. Leeds daily photoNovember 21, 2012 at 1:27 PM

    Stefan hit the nail on this as you rightly point out, wow those are expensive bikes. But that said its a great idea and good for everyone too.

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  12. UnknownNovember 21, 2012 at 6:54 PM

    It's a great idea but I would have the same thought you had in your last sentence.

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  13. GunnNovember 21, 2012 at 11:41 PM

    One day, I will rent one and give it a try:)

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  14. RedPatNovember 21, 2012 at 11:49 PM

    Bike-sharing has worked really well here in Toronto and it seems that after the cost of setting up the system it gets a lot cheaper to add more bikes.

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  15. HalcyonNovember 22, 2012 at 4:08 AM

    In times of austerity, this seems a little extravagant.

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  16. Traveling HawkNovember 22, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    I met the concept even in Seoul! It may be applied in highly civilized countries.

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