In Australia, where many areas have mandatory helmet laws, they have set up convenience stores (7-11, etc.) to sell/rent helmets for $5 as well as helmet vending machines. You can return the helmet and get $3 back. See the following links for more information for Melbourne's system http://www.melbournebikeshare.com.au/helmet-locations http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2010/10/melbourne-gets-on-top-of-its-slow.html
A group of students at MIT are working on a helmet vending system in the USA, see http://streetsblog.net/2012/02/29/rental-helmets-coming-soon-to-a-bike-share-station-near-you/ Vancouver, BC has a mandatory helmet law for adults and is apparently struggling with implementing a bike share system because of it. They are looking to Australia for info, see http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/12/is-the-helmet-law-why-bikeshare-is-failing-in-australian-cities/ Mexico City repealed it's mandatory helmet law when they implemented a bike share system. http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2010/06/mexico-city-repeals-bike-helmet-law.html Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
