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[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=afE44cHNkEg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

This is a lesson Montreal needs to pay close attention to: The BBC reports<\/a> that half of the original 15,000 Velib bikes available for rent across the city of Paris have disappeared.\u00a0 JCDecaux<\/a> has been running the program for the past 18 months, but says it can no longer keep up with costs on its own:<\/p>\n

Hung from lamp posts, dumped in the River Seine, torched and broken into pieces, maintaining the network is proving expensive. Some have turned up in eastern Europe and Africa, according to press reports. <\/em><\/p>\n

Since the scheme’s launch, nearly all the original bicycles have been replaced at a cost of 400 euros ($519, \u00a3351) each. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Velib bikes — the name is a contraction of velo (cycle) and liberte (freedom) — have also fallen victim to a craze known as “velib extreme”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Various videos have appeared on YouTube showing riders taking the bikes down the steps in Montmartre, into metro stations and being tested on BMX courses. <\/em>[See video above]
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…<\/p>\n

The original contract gave the advertising company a 10-year license to exploit 1,600 city-wide billboards in return for running the scheme, plus a share in the revenue, estimated at 20 million euros for the first year of operation. <\/em><\/p>\n

City hall has recently agreed to pay towards the costs of replacing the stolen or trashed bicycles but is refusing to bail out the company.” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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