DDOT tweeted yesterday that the new name for the regional bike sharing program would be Capital BikeShare, which I'm pretty sure I'll be calling CBS (But should I pronounce it like the TV network or as "seebees"?) It is, everyone notes, kind of dull. "George" got the most 1st place votes, but they just ignored the desire of the people (which, to be fair, I do every time I take my shirt off in public).
Officials said Tuesday in a statement that "George" was the favorite of 279 participants, with Capital Bikeshare the top choice of 199.
But the survey also asked for second and third choices, and Capital Bikeshare received 512 total votes to 453 for George.
But, did they weight them? Is this a Borda count or not?
And someone else made the Colbert reference - let the record show I was first. [The day after it was announced that Reagan had Alzheimer's I was doing open mic night at the Velveeta Room. After watching about 12 comedians make the same joke about it, my friend Chip - of modest "Austin Stories" fame - did a joke where he pretended to be a newscaster. First he announced the Reagan-Alzheimer story and then he said "and, in a related story, every comedian in America just wrote same joke 'well, duh'" Which is my way of saying that the Colbert reference is not particularly original on my part]
Photo by Whiteknuckled
I'd hang out at the pool if you'd leave your shirt on.
Posted by: Micah | June 09, 2010 at 09:14 AM
I suggest "seebs" as the singular noun to describe a bike from this service.
"How are you getting home?" "I was thinking I'd take a seebs."
Or even:
"Eh, I was gonna walk, but it's far, and I got lazy. So I just seebs'd it."
Posted by: Scott F | June 09, 2010 at 09:49 AM
Another improvement over Smartbike? CBS, er, Seebs, will be available 24/7. So no more getting to a bike stand to find that it's too late.
Posted by: MB | June 09, 2010 at 10:39 AM
I saw "George" and I thought CostanzaBike. "Let's take off our shirts and check out some Costanza bikes!"
24/7 -- good! Only 30 minute free trip -- meh. Though with so many stations, i think you can just do a quick check-in-checkout en route.
Posted by: darren | June 09, 2010 at 03:40 PM
"Capitol BS"... I thought that was already well suppled in Washington.
Posted by: SJE | June 09, 2010 at 03:46 PM
You can now sign up for their newsletter at http://capitalbikeshare.com
Posted by: Sean Gates | July 19, 2010 at 09:40 PM