Starting a yellow bike program?
I'm considering starting a Yellow Bike-type program where I live. Does anyone here have experience with starting up/managing programs like these? Any advice?
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go to citycarshare.org and snoop around. they are a bay area car-sharing program, but their software and methodology is open source and they are a non-profit. it's in their mission to help out other organizations. worth a shot anyway. their fone is 415-995-8588 if you want to go that route.
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Almost happened in Huntington Beach, CA back in the mid 90's. The idea was killed the minute the lawyers saw it. Too many potential liabilites
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They tried it in Charlottesville, Virginia. There's some info at this site: http://www.homestead.com/chaba/freebike.html
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I volunteer at Decatur Yellow Bike. http://www.dybikes.org/ We have someone who is very good at getting abandoned bikes from local college police depts and at-cost from thrift stores. The local bike shops give us a price break for things like brake cables and tubes. The free building space is donated by a local business person with a lot of warehouse-type of properties, but we have to move about once every 2 years or so, usually with-in a 2 or 3 block area. Moving is a pain, but then you throw out all the stuff that is really not ever going to be used. :D We are located near a rapid rail station, and in an area of Atlanta that is easy to get around on bikes. And volunteers make or break the organization. Good luck!
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