[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afE44cHNkEg[/youtube] The BBC reports that half of the original 15,000 Velib bikes available for rent across the city of Paris have disappeared.  JCDecaux has been running the program for the past 18 months, but says it can no longer keep up with costs on its own: Hung from lamp posts, dumped in the River Seine, torched and broken into pieces, maintaining the network is proving expensive. Some have turned up in eastern Europe and Africa, according to press reports. Since the scheme's launch, nearly all the original bicycles have been replaced at a cost of 400 euros ($519, £351) each. ...

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TRANSIT • More express bus routes considered [ Toronto Star ] • Transit staff mum on job attacks [ Toronto Star ] • Report sinks idea of transit ferry plan [ Toronto Star ] • TTC set to axe high-speed ferry plan [ National Post ] • Riders pile on the beefs [ Toronto Sun ] • Added buses means more legroom [ Toronto Sun ] • Safety checks hurried [ Toronto Sun ] • Cops defend pulling over rusty bus [ Toronto Sun ] • Cops on Red Rocket urged [ Toronto Sun ...

• TTC rolls out 93 more buses [ Toronto Star ] • Plan rolls out new era in transit [ Toronto Star ] • Metrolinx reaching moment of truth [ Metro ] • Cyclist's freedom lost with limb [ Globe and Mail ] • Mayor's committee shuffle even hurts allies' feelings [ Globe and Mail ] • Tracking coffee cups and lobbying [ Globe and Mail ] • $1.6B on the table [ Toronto Sun ] • A facelift for the Flatiron [ Toronto Star ] • Facebook CN Tower challenge ...

• TTC boosts service [ Toronto Sun ] • 'Overzealous' cop pulls bus off street [ Toronto Sun ] • City Hall told to stuff food-packaging ban [ Toronto Sun ] • The big reveal [ National Post ] • In bed with history at the ROM [ National Post ] • Urban feral cat population booming [ Toronto Star ]

TRANSIT • Design flaw delays city's new bike racks [ Toronto Star ] • Injured cyclist focuses on survival [ Toronto Star ] • Cab driver faces criminal charges [ Globe and Mail ] • Toronto police charge taxi driver after bicyclist loses leg in street altercation [ National Post ] • Assault charges added in hit-run incident [ Toronto Sun ] • Cabbie charged with assaulting cyclist who had leg amputated [ CBC.ca ] • GO deal one step closer [ Globe and Mail ] • Wing of Union Station to be sold to GO ...

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• Road tolls called 'inevitable' [ Toronto Star ] • Weighty price for TTC tokens [ Toronto Sun ] • Late Clarkson train [ Metro ] • Bachelor of Recycling required [ Toronto Star ] • Miller enemies take trashing [ Toronto Sun ] • We'll all be has-bins, city claims [ Toronto Sun ] • Civil war threatening at city hall [ National Post ] • This deal is nothing to celebrate [ Globe and Mail ]