Velib bikes in Paris. Photo by the noggin_nogged (Creative Commons)
Today’s Tribune has an editorial exploring what’s happened since Mayor Daley proposed bringing a Paris-style bike sharing model to Chicago after a visit to France in late 2007. Long story short: bike sharing is more complicated than the city realized, and the Paris model hasn’t fared quite as well as predicted.
Still, bike sharing remains a popular model, and one that seems to be catching on a lot of places. But I was surprised and pleased to discover a whole blog devoted to this topic, named, appropriately enough, The Bike Sharing Blog. They cover programs world wide, and have written quite a bit about the Paris model.
