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By kevcom2 (anonymous) | Posted March 25, 2015 at 18:35:36

Great post. I'm currently studying in Lyon, France and can confirm that Europe "gets it" with respect to higher order transit and public bike sharing. I've travelled extensively around France while on my exchange and have marveled that even the smaller urban areas privilege public transit over private automobiles.

In Lyon, there is a multi-modal system of 4 subway lights, two funiculars, 4 tram lines, several higher-order trolleybus lines, and regular diesel busses which serve local routes. A bike sharing system of over 4000 thousand bikes has been operational in the city since 2007. It was rated the best system in France, and is in fact so good that I don't even have a monthly membership for the public transit system. I use Velo'v, as it's known, every single day to commute to school, to run errands, and to return home from late evenings on the town.

If Hamilton thought more like Lyon, we would have a truly amazing city. Let's hope that SoBi will be the catalyst we need to move forward with bike infrastructure expansion and a greater adoption of healthy and sustainable living.

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