This neat idea is really one of those ’slap your head, why didn’t I think of that?’ moments
The key is the smart card. What I do not understand is how they get the price so low.
And while I’m on about smart cards, whatever happened to that idea that has been floating around this region for more years than I can be precise about: the Translink smartcard?
I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. Until March of 2004 I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority on wide variety of policy issues. None of these have been solved since I left, and the region now seems to be likely to abandon its long established growth strategy altogether, as the province is determined to expand its major freeway. I have long advocated more sensible policies to better integrate transport and land use. And this blog is a way to keep up the pressure! It also allows me to vent a bit on related issues.
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Thanks for spreading the good word. If I had a couple of million dollars, I would put these all over NYC. I really think it could be a moneymaker. I mean I know people who would pay 25 cents/hour for safe bike storage.
We’ve got to get these in Stuttgart!