When I first saw Seema’s little poster for the bike sharing systems, I was intrigued. I’ve seen them as I was growing up in New York City and then I saw a couple of the bike sharing stations at Cornell. I thought that having a discussion on the history and thought process behind these bike sharing systems is very cool. The Table-Talk revealed that the initial bike sharing program was actually almost a non-profit attempt to decrease motor accidents. Seema brought up how people use to have these white bikes that were dispersed around several areas over Amsterdam. However, these bikes were repetitively stolen and it’s understandable in how easily a bike can be painted over. The interesting thing is that over time they found systems to where people can place the bikes back. By somehow balancing the cost of maintaining the bikes and finding a crowd to promote the bike sharing programs to, companies were able to justify the cost. We started to discuss the bike sharing system at Cornell and we found one major flaw. Although there are several different stations on the central campus, we don’t see many stations elsewhere such as on West. Thus, there’s an inconvenience when one borrows a bike from central as they have to return back to central to return. The bike sharing system may be an interesting feature of Cornell but I wish they studied how many people actually use it.