I used to love reading the Boston Globe Magazine every Sunday when I lived at home and I still like to read it when I go home. On the cover this week was Boston's hopes to start a large-scale bike-share program like the one in Paris, called Velib ("velo" = cycle, "lib" = free, duh). In Paris it costs one euro to borrow a bicycle for the whole day.
If this kind of thing existed in New York (well, Brooklyn), I would be so on it. I don't have room to store a bike in my apartment, but if there was a little bike station down the street it would be superconvenient for a trip to the grocery store or to Park Slope.
But while it's nice to imagine ourselves all earth-saving and Parisian-like, the one thing I find wrong with the photo above is that these people look 95% chicer because they're not wearing helmets.
Photo courtesy boston.com
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