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

[Pascal van den Noort]

And indeed I forgot one other thing we do:
Sell them to Bike Shops as registered second hand bikes; this can partly fund the program


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On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Anderson, Regina (Singapore) wrote:

> Well said.
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> Subject: [sustran] Re: What to do with 900 bikes?
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> 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
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> Number 1 & 2 would work I guess.
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> 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?
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> On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote:
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>> 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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