[Opinionated Blowhard]

That’s the outrageous part of this. Its not whether or not fat people can ride the bikes. Its that the government is using freakin’ taxpayer money to run this boondoggle. Let me make a prediction: fat people riding won’t be much of an issue because these bikes will be stolen or destroyed within short order.

[longtermmemmory]

we should call them bloomycycles.

somebody is making a few crony dollars off of this joke.

[PeterPrinciple]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_sharing_system

The initial 30 bicycles placed into service for the Orange Bike Project were all stolen within a few weeks.[40] A total of 80 bicycles were eventually used in the Orange Bike Project, all of which were either stolen or vandalised beyond repair.[40] In one case, an Orange Bike Project bicycle was thrown in front of a freight train, in others, bikes were found with major frame damage consistent with deliberate vandalism.[40] The program was terminated after only five months of operation.[39][40]

[Responsibility2nd]

 

fat people riding won’t be much of an issue because these bikes will be stolen or destroyed within short order.
 

 

You got that right.

 

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Springtime for Bloomberg
Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield
 

Posted on Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:29:46 AM by Louis Foxwell

 

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Springtime for Bloomberg

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

 

Spring is in the air, which in New York means that it's time to launch the bike-share program. The bike-share program, which stacks racks of bikes out in the street in the hope that eveyone will stop driving cars and rent bikes instead, failed in Paris, Melbourne and Montreal. But Mr. Bloomberg is not about to stop his wars on obesity and global warming long enough to let the failure of a senseless program everywhere else slow down his bid to implement it.

In Paris, 80 percent of the bicycles were stolen. Some ended up in Africa and Eastern Europe. But surely that won't happen in a law-abiding place like Gotham.

Citibike, better known as a plan to stock Craiglist with secondhand bikes at taxpayer expense, was supposed to launch last summer, but the software developed by the Montreal parking authority didn't work. In only two years, the Montreal taxpayer funded company and its bike share plan had managed to get into enough financial trouble to require a 108 million dollar bailout. But then the big contracts from Chicago and New York City arrived and in a fortuitous coincidence, the Chicago Department of Transportation intern who wrote up the proposal was hired and given a top position in the company.
 

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