According to a BBC report, the Paris bike scheme Vélib seems to have a theft and vandalism problem:
- 20,000 bicycles
- 1,250 stations
- Cost 400 euros each to replace
- 7,800 „disappeared“
- 11,600 vandalised
- 1,500 daily repairs
- Staff recover 20 abandoned bikes a day
- Each bike travels 10,000 km a year
- 42 million users since launch
(February 2009)