Bikes Sep 14, 2010 at 2:44 pm

Seattle Will Try Out (Doomed to Fail) Bike Sharing Program

Sarah Mirk
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Bikes!
Blabby on September 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM Report this
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WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE (http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto… SEATTLE IS NOT A PORTLAND SISTER CITY!!!

PLEASE STOP SAYING THIS RETARDED FUCKNIG CRAP!!!

The city of Portland has nine sister cities (info can be found here: http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.…).

Ashkelon, Israel
Bologna, Italy
Guadalajara, Mexico
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Khabarovsk, Russia
Mutare, Zimbabwe
Sapporo, Japan
Suzhou, China
Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Graham on September 14, 2010 at 2:58 PM Report this
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The building we are moving into has bikes for the residents to share with helmets and maintenance/repairs included.

Progress!
kiala on September 14, 2010 at 3:11 PM Report this
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@Graham, I believe the sisterly connection comes from the relationship between The Stranger and The Mercury.
cat & beard on September 14, 2010 at 3:48 PM Report this
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16: the over/under of the number of bikes that end up in puget sound
Evil Wm. Steven Humphrey on September 14, 2010 at 4:09 PM Report this
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@catandbeard: Well, the Mercury's sister paper to the north is able to correctly use the sister city concept on their blog. They even did that crap today when referencing Reykjavik.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/…
Graham on September 14, 2010 at 4:25 PM Report this
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Jeez - 'sister city' can mean many things - in this case, Seattle is sometimes considered Portland's big sister up the 1-5 corridor. The two major cities in the Pacific Northwest/US.

Try sticking to the topic at hand instead of nitpicking for the slightest things. There is nothing wrong with what she wrote. Get over it.
ReallyNow on September 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM Report this
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Bikes!!
Blabby on September 14, 2010 at 4:40 PM Report this
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Stolen. All of them within 6 months or sooner. Guar-un-teed. If not for useage or parts, for fun. If Portland is Thieftown, Seattle is a bustling Burgleopolis.
TSW on September 14, 2010 at 4:40 PM Report this
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The ONLY way this might work is if the cost of the bike is held on a credit card that get's swiped at the bike share station and even then...

How much is a decent used bike anyway? I don't see why taxpayers should fund bikes for people. I could see a private system if people really just need easy access to a bike like that.
Suburban Porn King on September 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM Report this
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This did not work even in the gated community of Burning Man. The bikes were stolen, locked away, or broken by day three. This was 300 bikes in a homogeneous community of 50,000.
Rosy on September 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM Report this
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why are the bikes always ugly?
ajnpdx on September 14, 2010 at 9:03 PM Report this
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How about just sharing bike seats? Just put a few on popular streets (Hawthorne, Burnside...) and let people sit on them (they don't go anywhere-they're just seats, on a pole, stuck on a sidewalk) and we can exchange communicable diseases freely and without the agony of emotional and physical relationships.

Bike seat sharing program. Bam. Trademarked.
Just keepin' Portland weird.
El Stunto on September 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM Report this
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@ajnpdx, why does it matter if the bikes are pretty or not? Maybe ugly bikes will disswade people from taking them? Or maybe not everyone on a bike is trying to look like a SE cool kid?
If Copenhagen can do it why can't we?
Dino might? on September 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM Report this
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fuck seattle. worst place.
fucktheshittlescum on September 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM Report this
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I'll take the over.
Rusty! on September 15, 2010 at 12:02 AM Report this
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I'm in Antwerp right now where there are dozens of spots you can rent bikes for around $5/week. It's subsidized by the city and donations.

It's affordable to nearly everyone and MUCH more successful than handing them out since the renter is responsible for the bike.
Annie on September 15, 2010 at 1:23 AM Report this
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$5 a week? In Amerika you can buy a bike @ Walmart for $80 or a nice Huffy for $120. They will still get stolen or vandalized just like the nice ones.
Rosy on September 15, 2010 at 3:25 AM Report this

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