Collaborate Disseminate
Part of the detritus of many cities over the last few years has been the ubiquitous bicycles and scooters of the various companies that offer them for hourly hire via a smartphone app. They’re annoying when left randomly on pavements by their users, and they sometimes appear to outnumber riders …read more
Continue reading When A Bike Sharing Startup Goes Away, What Do You Do With The Bikes?
If you are fortunate enough to live in a tiny settlement of no significance then perhaps you will be a stranger to bike sharing services. In many cities, these businesses have peppered the streets with bicycles secured by electronic locks for which the “open sesame” command comes through a Bluetooth connection and an app, and it’s fair to say they have become something of a menace. Where this is being written there are several competing brands of dubious market viability, to take a trip across town is to dodge hundreds of them abandoned across pavements, and every one of our …read more
Continue reading Share Bike Surrenders Its Secrets To A Teardown
It’s making public transit worse. Continue reading Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US
Dallas’ chaotic experiment in bike sharing is a case in point. Continue reading Bike Sharing Is Doomed to Fail in Most American Cities