A few NYT articles about Velib

Following up on my previous post about Velib, here are a few NYT articles that I've saved with the intention to post:

(1) An Travel section article from Oct '07, soon after the system's debut:

TRAVEL | October 14, 2007
Journeys | Paris: Finding Liberte on Two Wheels
By ERIC RAYMAN
Paris’s self-service bicycle docking stations make it easy even for fresh-off-the-plane Americans to explore the city in a way that you can’t by foot, by Métro or by taxi.

(2) A news article that ran this summer, about the success of the first year of Velib:

INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE | July 13, 2008
A New Fashion Catches On in Paris: Cheap Bicycle Rentals
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A year after the introduction of the sturdy gray bicycles known as Vélib’s, other major cities, including American ones, are exploring similar projects.

(3) Another one that also ran in July, about how Paris is considering a similar program w/ electric cars!

INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE | July 29, 2008
After Bike-Sharing Success, Paris Considers Electric Cars
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The new car-sharing program, expected to begin in late 2009 or early 2010, would bring a fleet of 4,000 electric cars and would be run by the city of Paris.

I will have to write up an account of our own (overwhelmingly positive) experience with Velib...perhaps I'll put it off until I finally upload our photos from that trip, since we've got a good number of Velib photos among those.