[sustran] Re: What to do with 900 bikes?

[Pascal van den Noort]

We have three purposes for left over bikes in Amsterdam:
1. scrap the really bad ones 
2. sell for very cheap to students
3. send the rest to developing countries

Number 1 & 2 would work I guess.

Plus: Make a law forbidding police to take away their transport if some rule is trespassed. Are cars taken away if drivers don't use their safety belts?


Pascal J.W. van den Noort
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On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a practical problem: Bogotá's traffic police have taken away
> bicycles from people not wearing helmets, and getting them back costs
> more than the actual cost of the bike. In consequence, there are a
> couple of yards with some 900 bikes sitting there for the last 10
> years. This week a judge has told a local organization that they are
> willing to "donate them" for a noble cause, but that they must be
> taken from the yards before this Friday. They are getting a warehouse
> to store them at least from Friday and during some weeks, but now the
> questions are:
> - Will they be at all useful (imagine, bikes that have been in the
> open and under rain, sun, etc for up to 10 years...)?
> - If they're not useful as fully-functional bikes, what can they be
> used for? Some people have said they should do a sculpture, do various
> sculptures and do an auction with those sculptures, turn them into
> blocks of scrap metal...
> 
> Now my question to all of you is: what would you do with 900
> used-disfunctional bicycles? (of course, imagine you have very limited
> amounts of money to do something).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Carlosfelipe Pardo
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