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"Cycling Idol": TfL Wants You To Name Its Bikes After Inspirational Women (londonist.com)

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure naming the town bicycles after women has quite the right connotations...

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 3 days ago

I don’t know, the optics of naming things a lot of people will ride after famous women seem somewhat problematic

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

What? "Boris bikes" doesn't work for them?

I not sure forced naming of these things really works. You have to see what colloquial names pop up for things, and then decide if you want to adopt them officially. If people want to use a nickname, they will.

E.g. The tube is the tube because that's fun to say. Not because anybody had a focus group and selected it.