<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C78F06.39891790">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:36.0pt' id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> My fond hope and firm guess is that Dave Holladay will not mind my sharing this posting with you all. These are good points and certainly need to be taken into account in any neural presentation such as that which I am in the process of trying to piece together, not only on the Velib’ project but also the other innovative measures being reported on in my Paris survey <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Right under Dave’s good note, you will see the “screening criteria” which I am putting forth as acid tests for each selected measure and recommendation, including, you can bet, Velib’<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Comments on all this most welcome – and again I propose that they either be shipped to me privately at eric.britton@ecoplan.org or to the New Mobility Idea Factory via theNewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com address. (Otherwise apologies for cross-posting but I do believe there is wide interest here among our different groups. Also please feel free to share more broadly.)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Eric Britton<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> PS. Review copies are now available for comment.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> -----Original Message----- From: Tramsol@aol.com [mailto:Tramsol@aol.com] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 6:08 PM To: eric.britton@ecoplan.org Subject: Battle for the money... on the streets of Paris <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Eric <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> I'm trying to get a picture of what mayhem you may experience in your lovely city when the City hands over almost 2000 on-street advertising sites (worth about E 35 million per year?) to JC Decaux in return for them spending E70m on their Velib cycle hire system.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Currently Decaux are locked in the courts with Clear Channel whose system operates in a similar way and reckon that there was monkey business when the contract was awarded.  Both bike hire systems work essentially on the fu8nding delivered by the advertising panels and are the sweeties offered like the e-pissoirs and bus shelters given away by the same companies - to get space for posters in the public realm.  The business is generally very dirty in the way that a good exclusive deal for a city is worth a bundle of money.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> I am also concerned to find out the likely fate of Roue Libre, supported by RATP, which ires out bikes from rail stations and converted buses, driven to parks and public spaces at weekends and on holidays.  It would seem that in one part of the city administration signing up the Velib, they have signed the death warrant for a successful scheme of some 10 years standing.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Can you find out any more/any contacts?<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> By contrast London has now got OYBike which unlike the Decaux and CC schemes does not come with automatically attached advertising baggage.  Unfortunately it does not yet have the backing of TfL's Cycling Centre of Excellence but a number of London Boroughs have installed smaller Pool Bike systems whcih are available to the public, and the University of E London scheme is so successful that within hours of installation - and a week before official launch, it was being used for (late) night-time shopping trips.  OYBIke is part of a tendered package for Toronto and is facing the Decaux machine (a huge team flown in) in Chicago (with their 1 person flying economy class...).  Dave Wetzel has been trying out the system recently.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Check out <a href="http://www.oybike.com">www.oybike.com</a> <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Dave <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Bottom-Line new mobility tests:<o:p></o:p> <ol start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Traffic reductions: Does this new mobility tool help to reduce (and especially SOV) car traffic in the city?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Environment sustainability: Does it offer a proven, significant, cost-effective capacity for reducing CO2 and other sources of pollution?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Synergies: Does it synergize with and open up space for yet other  new mobility  options, reforms and measures?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Accessible: Is it widely accessible and easy to use?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Equitable: Is it affordable and socially equitable?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Public space: Does it help to improve the quantity/quality of public space in the city?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Cost effective: Can it be brought on line at relatively low cost?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Fast results: And show significant results within a single electoral mandate?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Replicable: Is it replicable in other cities (with proper preparation and adaptation of course)?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Experience-proved: Has enough experience been accumulated both in Paris and elsewhere so that cities wishing to look closely at the concept can do so with confidence?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Flexible: Does the approach permit a range of alternative planning, financing and implementation alternatives?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Reversible: Can it be readily and cheaply reversed, or radically restructured or moved to a better location, if it proves somehow  unsatisfactory in its performance?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Participatory: Does the project by its nature invite, provide for active public participation and collaboration?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>Open: Is that information accessible to diligent professionals?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'>City-transformation:  Is it a ‘city-transforming’ project that can lead to a much more sustainable city and higher quality of life for all? <o:p></o:p></li> </ol> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>