Washington, DC's SmartBike bike sharing system was nominated as part of Treehugger's "Best of Green 2010 Reader's Choice Awards" in the Cars & Transportation category.
DC is going up against Hangzhou, China; Paris, France; Lyon, France; and Montreal, Canada. I'm as much a homer as anyone, and I love SmartBike, but Paris...come on. We can't compete with that...yet. Still, let's concentrate on what's important - being better than Canada. Though I really don't understand the sport and no one else is talking about it, they clearly cheated in the Olympic hockey finals (men's and women's). So they deserve to be knocked down. Stupid Montreal.
Photo by m hoek.
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Posted by: IMGoph | March 12, 2010 at 07:52 AM
Paris is filled with dog doo on the sidewalks. At least it was the two summers I spent there. Maybe they have pooper-scooper laws now but they didn't back then. Any city with that much doggie junk everywhere deserves to get knocked down a few places in any ranking.
Why isn't Copenhagen on the list? They are usually thought of as more of a bike city in Europe than Paris.
Posted by: Michael H. | March 12, 2010 at 04:06 PM
Copenhagen doesn't have bike sharing.
Posted by: washcycle | March 12, 2010 at 04:17 PM
That's strange. Then again, everyone in Copenhagen probably owns a bike so there's no need for a bike sharing program.
Posted by: Michael H. | March 12, 2010 at 06:49 PM