I absolutely love it when this happens.
News today:
“Ottawa, Gatineau consider Paris bike-sharing system”
NCC takes part in plan to provide alternative to cars
OTTAWA-The National Capital Commission and the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau are considering a public shared bicycle network similar to systems used in Paris and other cities to encourage commuters to leave their cars at home.
One of my first posts last year:
“Quick solution for Ottawa: get a rent-a-bike system.”
I think Ottawa would be a fine candidate for something like this. Let’s try and make public transit, whether buses, light rail or bikes, useful for people. Oftentimes people don’t want to ride a bike somewhere because they then have to think about where to store it while they go do something. This solves that issue and it also just makes the non-bikers like me more open to at least trying it out. I won’t spend $9/hour to go biking and I won’t spend a couple hundred on a bike when I might not stay here.
Not to pat myself on the back too much (let’s see if they actually do it), but this is just one of those moments of joy 
Interested to see what they do with them in the winter if this plan goes through too.
