{"id":3655,"date":"2009-08-11T05:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:30","slug":"love-bixi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/11\/love-bixi\/","title":{"rendered":"Love + Bixi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Love + Bixi : La curiosit\u00e9 by \u00c9mile Thomas, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacingmontreal\/3799995824\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3538\/3799995824_85cb1f0c13.jpg\" alt=\"Love + Bixi : La curiosit\u00e9\" width=\"474\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab L&#8217;amour n&#8217;a point d&#8217;\u00e2ge : il est toujours naissant \u00bb<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Blaise Pascal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bixi has become the new church hall, the new town square, the new water cooler, the new Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Bixi has become the new social networking tool.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I take a Bixi, ride a Bixi, return a Bixi, talk about Bixi, or even look at a Bixi, I find myself deep in\u00a0conversation with strangers.<\/p>\n<p>It always begins with the same question :<br \/>\n<em>So how does this Bixi thing work?<\/em><br \/>\nOu, en fran\u00e7ais :<br \/>\n<em>Le Bixi, \u00e7a marche-tu bien ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Et hop, je me transforme en porte-parole pour Stationnement Montr\u00e9al et son projet star.<br \/>\nJe leur enseigne la fa\u00e7on dont j\u2019acc\u00e8de \u00e0 un v\u00e9lo en utilisant ma Bixi-cl\u00e9 chouette ou un code fourni par la borne.<br \/>\nJe les informe que c\u2019est gratuit pour les 30 premi\u00e8res minutes et que les tarifs s\u2019accroissent exponentiellement apr\u00e8s ces 30 minutes.<br \/>\nJe leur d\u00e9cris comment on peut s\u2019abonner, soit annuellement, soit mensuellement, soit quotidiennement.<br \/>\nJe leur apprends o\u00f9 ils peuvent s\u2019en enqu\u00e9rir davantage : <a href=\"www.bixi.com\">www.bixi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then a funny thing happens. As I prepare to be on my merry way, another question flies at me; from out of the blue; no two questions have ever been the same; n\u2019ayant rien \u00e0 voir avec le Bixi.<\/p>\n<p>Parfois nous discutons les \u00e9v\u00e9nements du quartier.<\/p>\n<p>Durant une rencontre Bixi particuli\u00e8re, j\u2019ai appris que la friperie pr\u00e8s de chez moi aura bient\u00f4t des soldes de d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement. Lors d\u2019une autre liaison bien torride, mon interlocuteur m\u2019a invit\u00e9 \u00e0 une f\u00eate \u00e9lectro sous le viaduc Van Horne.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the theme is the seedy elements of living in the city.<\/p>\n<p>When vandalism of the Bixi stations first took off, around La St-Jean, many talked about how unfortunate it was to be in a city filled with ungrateful delinquents. We speculate whether the end\u00a0is nigh; what with all the shootings happening on the Main.<\/p>\n<p>Je ne regarde pas la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision; Bixi est devenu ipso facto ma Radio-Canada. Earl Jones, des \u00e9difices croulants et dangereux, et le retour \u00e9ventuel du Grand Prix \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al repr\u00e9sentent quelques actualit\u00e9s, entre autres, apprises autour d\u2019un Bixi.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve actually spent a day with a Brazilian student I met while exchanging my Bixi for another. She was practicing her French. I was practising my Portuguese (or at least pretending to). Now I have free accommodations in Rio, should I ever travel to Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Bixi should add another selling point to its long list of accolades: bringing the people of of our diverse community together.<\/p>\n<p>En esp\u00e9rant que Bixi me conduira \u00e0 l\u2019amour de ma vie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MONTR\u00c9AL \u2013 \u00c9mile Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab L&#8217;amour n&#8217;a point d&#8217;\u00e2ge : il est toujours naissant \u00bb &#8211; Blaise Pascal Bixi has become the new church hall, the new town square, the new water cooler, the new Facebook. Bixi has become the new social networking tool. 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