The Velibs are coming?
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@missarchi wrote:
just in time for summer
Not quite,
Now that the facility is up and wheeling so to speak, whats the verdict from Dublin.
Has anyone on this forum used if yet ?I was indeed using them like a madman on Sunday 😉 Great bikes and kinda cool with the baskets haha my bell was working overtime!
Even today I had to head into town and FORGOT my card and it was painful to walk by a stand of bikes which would have taken me right to the dawson/molesworth street area that I was heading.. doh!
+1
1 week in jail regardless? There should be a 666 euro fine for going within 1 metre of a cyclist.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0915/breaking21.html?via=mr
Was looking wistfully at the serried ranks of bikes up the top of South William street. Gotta get that perma-ticket.
Does anyone else think these bikes are cool enought to forego EUR150 for?
Seems good value to me for an almost new bike 🙂 (with lock lights and a basket thrown in)I want my own dublinbike, beats the piece of crap I have which also cost EUR150 (without lights lock or basket or pannier)
Do they have a pnnier?
@ac1976 wrote:
Does anyone else think these bikes are cool enought to forego EUR150 for?
Seems good value to me for an almost new bike 🙂 (with lock lights and a basket thrown in)I want my own dublinbike, beats the piece of crap I have which also cost EUR150 (without lights lock or basket or pannier)
Do they have a pnnier?
you don’t forego 150 for this scheme
@alonso wrote:
you don’t forego 150 for this scheme
Well I was exploring the idea of keeping one of the bikes forever Alonso
Seems good value for EUR150.oh yeh sorry – well free lightt, free bell, y’know factor it all in like
I wonder will you be pursued though
All the bikes are microchipped so they can be located.
@StephenC wrote:
All the bikes are microchipped so they can be located.
really so they can trace your movements
Not only that you think they can record voices and build up bicycle facial recognition. I think most the data will be used for research into marketing ect.:D
But the information would be great for transport planning but wait there’s no bikes at college green…Wait until they can identify you and as you pass the beautiful JC Decaux erections (which soon enough will have TV screen style displays, as they have in other countries), they can deliver you targetted advertising. What joy.
TV’s is going a bit mad but I’ve seen it done… Was there no condition in the boards decision?
Sound will be next… We even have McDonald’s in metro stations just wait for the vending machines and retail integration in about 10 years…Was there no condition in the boards decision?
The board rejected all those that were appealed, problem was that DCC/Decaux put them is a seperate planning applications, so cost a fortune to appeal all of them. There is no condition as to the nature of the display, so in theory they could have LED/LCD TV type displays fitted to them.
2 years + after the grant of permission there has STILL been no Stage 3 road safety audit done on the signage as was conditioned to be done.
iv) The proposed structure shall be the subject of a Stage 3 Road Safety Audit at the applicants expense. This will be done by an approved auditor through a public procurement procedure, which shall audit the entire permitted signage. Any failure shall be removed.
Note: the amount of cyclists being killed on Irish roads is very high. There was another victim just there last Tuesday on Wellington Quay. A lorry was involved as usual. RIP
Dublin Bikes iphone app pulled after legal threats from J.C. Decaux
http://fusio.net/dublinbikesapp/@Paul Clerkin wrote:
Dublin Bikes iphone app pulled after legal threats from J.C. Decaux
http://fusio.net/dublinbikesapp/Thata a bummer, its a great app
mine still works for now anyway@ac1976 wrote:
Thata a bummer, its a great app
mine still works for now anywayToo right its a bummer.
What was the reason for the legal threat ?maybe you can assess shortage of supply?
Any way bicycle tracking would also be cool on google maps maybe that’s a project for the UCD people intercepting the free broadcast signal… and mapping bike usage over timewe don’t want tracking on bikes, the oyster card system in london is orwellian, check out eirtext app vs O2, for similar story re legal threat that could have been sorted by a phone call.
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