Alternative Transportation Week: Petty Theft vs. The Rise of Bike Sharing

On top of car sharing, there are bike sharing organizations, too, which appear so far to be more of the non-profit variety. Check out iBike.org. There seems to be an opportunity for a company and a technology that can offer bike sharing will somehow mitigating the risk of having all bikes stolen. (Check out this wikipedia entry: "all 300 bikes were stolen on the first day..."

By the grace of YouTube, Treehugger and Matthew Sparkes bust a a bike tire thief and would-be Stomper on the Dreams of a US Bicycle Culture.

Hilarious lyrics: "This guy needed some wheels; this guy...he steals...what an asshole!"

Hopefully this unexpected peer video exposure virally vilifies this petty schmuck into a conviction and the shame of running so counter to our burgeoning affinity for velo power. See these bloggers on the rise in Bike Sharing.

Paul DeMaio at CommuterPageBlog
Bike Sharing in Chicago from Amy at the Trib
BikePortland's Jonathan Maus on Portland's prospects
And Richard Layman, "Urban Revitalization Advocate" in DC