http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/transportation_policy+bicycles+car_free PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18916 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18916 <div class="float-left position-relative margin-top-minus-22"><span class="small"> From </span><span class="byline">The Times</span></div><div class="small color-666"> August 9, 2007</div><div class="small color-666">Parisians show their va va voom as city rolls out 'freedom' bike scheme</div><!-- END: Module - Main Heading --><!--CMA user Call Diffrenet Variation Of Image --><!-- BEGIN: M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> /* Global variables that are used for "image browsing". Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. */ var sImageBrowserImagePath = ''; var aArticleImages = new Array(); var aImageDescriptions = new Array(); var aImageEnlargeLink = new Array(); var aImageEnlargePopupWidth = '500'; var aImageEnlargePopupHeight = '500'; var aImagePhotographer = new Array(); var nSelectedArticleImage = 0; var i=0; aArticleImages[i] = '/multimedia/archive/00196/parisbikes385_196359a.jpg'; <!--Don't Display undifined test for credit --> aImageEnlargeLink[i] = '/multimedia/archive/00196/parisbikes385_196359a.jpg'; i=i+1; <!-- Remove following <div> to not show photographer information --><!-- Remove following <div> to not show image description --><!-- Remove following <div> to not show enlarge option --><!----><div id="pagination-container" class="pagination-container"> fCreateImageBrowser(nSelectedArticleImage,'landscape',"/tol/")</div><!-- Print Author name associated with the article --><div id="main-article"><div class="article-author"><!-- Print Author name from By Line associated with the article --><span class="byline"> Charles Bremner in Paris </span></div></div><!-- END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --><!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><!-- Pagination --><p> Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the scheme is proving a triumph and a new pedalling army appears to be taming the city&rsquo;s famously fierce traffic. </p><p> Bertrand Delano�, the city&rsquo;s mayor, and his green-minded administration are jubilant at the gusto with which Parisians and visitors have taken to the heavy grey cycles that have been available at 750 ranks since July 15. </p><p> Nowhere is the project being watched with greater interest than in London as the city prepares for London Freewheel day next month, when miles of roads will be car-free for the day. After witnessing first-hand the ease with which Parisians have taken to pedalling, Ken Livingstone, the Mayor, has asked Transport for London to develop a similar plan for London and bring together several smaller schemes across the city. </p><p> In Paris there have been few teething troubles with the high-tech system that supplies the bikes for up to &euro;1 per half-hour &mdash; but one is a result of residents using them to glide downhill to work and then taking public transport home, resulting in gluts of bikes at some low-level stands and shortages at higher altitude stations, such as Montmartre. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>