Bicycle Vending Machine

[pixelguru]

This is awesome!

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/14/bike_vending_ma.html

"This Bike Vending Machine is an ingenious design meant to facilitate bike rentals in urban environments. Customers could pay a small fee to get a bike from one of the machines and then they'd be able to ride it where they pleased. They could then return it to another bike machine across town, allowing for easy one-way trips."

http://www.bikedispenser.com/bikedispenser.html

[jerman]

I think it is a great idea. I just would be worried that some morons would either trash the bikes or steal them.

[Kamikaze]

I think it is a great idea. I just would be worried that some morons would either trash the bikes or steal them.

I'm pretty sure that they had a similar program in Brussels, when I was there this spring. And I seem to remember that something like that has been going on for a while in Amsterdam and maybe Oslo? You will loose some bikes to theft/vandalism, but overall they seem to be able to make it work. Oh, snap! I goggled and it seems it's all over Europe now! http://www.courant.com/travel/hc-travbicyclette.artjul29,0,2235445.story