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Paris Mayor eyes use-and-leave car commute

Success of popular bike-sharing system spawns new idea Green dreams: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe launches the Velib cycles in Paris in July 2007. PARIS: Paris' ambitious Mayor has a new "green dream' after the spectacular success of his bike-sharing scheme launched a year ago: a version for electric cars. Under Bertrand Delanoe's environmentally friendly plan, a driver could pick up a car, say, on the Left Bank, snake up the slopes of Montmartre, then drop it off