Comments on: Thom Yorke interviews Ken Livingstone

By: foie-gras style

foie-gras style — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:55:37 +0000

you must forgive muldfeld. he learns everything from internet stereotypes, atease, and hearsay. unless it’s a politically relevant show

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:41:10 +0000

The Yellow Bike project in Austin, TX didn’t really fail. All the bikes were donated and built by volunteers. They’re free to ride. You just find one and ride where you need to go and then leave it to be picked up by the next person.

The volunteers who run the project claim that they’re happy when they see someone riding a yellow bike that they obviously spray painted and claimed as their own because at least they’re making use of it and not contributing to carbon emissions.

I don’t understand the comment about Austin electing the Texas governor. Austin is the most liberal city in Texas and one of the most liberal cities in the U.S. You can be sure Austinites have never contributed to Republicans holding public office.

By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:04:46 +0000

it started in Lyon and spread around france with great success.
The austin thing sounds a bit strange, as you can’t keep it more than a certain time (30 min or so) without getting charged a hell lot of money on your credit card…
Having said that, in Paris the behaviour is not the cleanest ever (people puting locks on the bikes to make sure they get one in the morning - which makes me wonder why they won’t buy a bike of their own in that case) but again, parisians are a bit weird sometimes

By: Muldfeld

Muldfeld — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:06 +0000

I saw a piece years ago that it was working in one American city, though. How very sad for Austin’s culture; well just look at the man they elected governor? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist) It’s amazing how some jerks screw it up for the rest of the honest people in Texas and other places.

I remember, in my dorm of rich kids, some guys urinated in the TV room common area, so it was closed down, and sabotaged the laundrey room because people weren’t paying their share. I had to keep lobbying the admin to open it up because I had always paid my share and was sick of wearing dirty clothes. The admin were being dicks about it…

Ahh, but that was years ago….
(Shakes himself into the present)

By: chris

chris — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:12:49 +0000

They tried the bike thing in Austin, Tx and it failed. People started not returning the bikes, in no time there were no bikes to pick up and ride, they were all at peoples homes.