Velib tops a million rentals

And that was in just the first three weeks. As CommuterPage Blog reports

bike-sharing has become so popular in Paris that when all 20,600 bikes are available (presently 10,000 are), it will carry as many customers as Paris's tramway system.

Wow. It makes one wonder if widening I-66 is really the best use of money (and one could possibly ask the same thing about the Silver Line to Dulles which is now $250 million too expensive).

Comments

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Just to be clear: Paris's tramway system is peanuts compared with the heavy rail Metro.

But there's no question: Vélib' is totally cool (I tried it).