Bike sharing: Coming to your city?


	Bike sharing: Coming to your city?

masbury

5-3-2009 11:35 PM

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transportation, bikes

masbury says:

Denver first location for automated bike rentals

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5-4-2009 11:34 AM

Antara

I hope it works, seems many of these programs never get the results they hope to due to theft.

I love my bicycle

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