Orwellian title aside, may I give you one opinion on that bicycle thing?
I write from Barcelona and since we like to be in the silliness avant-garde, this was one of the first places to use those public bicycles.
The result is that, at an enourmous cost, the people using them are those that formerly used to walk, take the public transport or their own bicycle. Almost none switched from car to them, wich was the main idea behind the project.
But they look nice and green, don’t they?