AMY: Shall we look at some examples now?

艾米：我们现在要看一些例子吗？

And say what we think is good or bad about them.

说说我们对他们的看法是好是坏。

JAKE: I suppose we should start with Amsterdam as this was one of the first cities to have a bike sharing scheme.

杰克：我想我们应该从阿姆斯特丹开始，因为这是最早有自行车共享计划的城市之一。

AMY: Yes. There was already a strong culture of cycling here.

艾米：对。这里已经有很浓厚的骑车文化了。

In a way it's strange that there was such a demand for bike-sharing because you'd have thought most people would have used their own bikes.

在某种程度上，人们对自行车共享的需求如此之大是很奇怪的，因为你会认为大多数人都会使用自己的自行车。

JAKE: And yet it's one of the best-used schemes …

杰克：但在这里，共享单车成为最受欢迎方案之一。

Dublin's an interesting example of a success story.

共享单车在都柏林也成功实施了，它也是一个有趣的例子。

AMY: It must be because the public transport system's quite limited.

艾米：一定是因为公共交通系统很有限。

JAKE: Not really – there's no underground, but there are trams and a good bus network.

杰克：也不是。那里没有地铁，但有电车和良好的公交网络。

I'd say price has a lot to do with it.

我觉得和价格有很大关系。

It's one of the cheapest schemes in Europe to join.

欧洲地区中，这里是租用价格最低廉的地区之一。

AMY: But the buses are really slow – anyway the weather certainly can't be a factor!

艾米：但是公共汽车真的很慢。不管怎样，天气肯定不是一个因素！

JAKE: No – definitely not. The London scheme's been quite successful.

杰克：不，绝对不是。伦敦的计划相当成功。

AMY: Yes – it's been a really good thing for the city.

艾米：是的，这对城市来说真的是件好事。

The bikes are popular and the whole system is well maintained but it isn't expanding quickly enough.

自行车很受欢迎，整个系统维护得很好，但扩展速度不够快。

JAKE: Basically, not enough's been spent on increasing the number of cycle lanes.

杰克：简单来说，在增加自行车道数量上花的投入还不够。

Hopefully that'll change.

希望之后会有改变。

AMY: Yes. Now what about outside Europe?

艾米：对。那么欧洲以外的国家呢？

JAKE: Well bike-sharing schemes have taken off in places like Buenos Aires.

杰克：自行车共享计划在布宜诺斯艾利斯等地已经开始实施。

AMY: Mmm. They built a huge network of cycle lanes to support the introduction of the scheme there, didn't they?

艾米：嗯。他们建立了一个庞大的自行车道网络，以支持该计划的实施，不是吗？

It attracted huge numbers of cyclists where previously there were hardly any.

它吸引了大量的骑自行车的人，而以前几乎没人骑车。

JAKE: An example of good planning.

杰克：这是一个成功规划的例子。

AMY: Absolutely. New York is a good example of how not to introduce a scheme.

艾米：肯定的。纽约也是一个很好的反例，展示了计划实施的失败之处。

When they launched it, it was more than ten times the price of most other schemes.

推行项目时，租车费用的定价是其他大部分共享单车项目价格的十倍多。

JAKE: More than it costs to take a taxi. Crazy.

杰克：比打车还贵。太疯狂了。

I think the organisers lacked vision and ambition there.

我觉得纽约的组织者缺少远见和雄心壮志。

AMY: I think so too.

艾米：我也觉得。

Sydney would be a good example to use.

悉尼也是一个很具说服力的例子。

I would have expected it to have grown pretty quickly here.

我本以为它会在这里迅速发展。

JAKE: Yes. I can't quite work out why it hasn't been an instant success like some of the others.

杰克：对。我不太明白为什么它没有像其他一些计划那样获得立竿见影的成功。

It's a shame really.

真的太可惜了。

AMY: I know. OK so now we've thought about …

艾米：是的。好了，所以现在我们想… …