Flooding cities, where most people already own bikes, with countless rentable bikes is not a good idea. It can become a good idea when there are dedicated spaces for them to be parked/charged. Otherwise they just infest everything. They had this in my city before the privatized rentables became a thing, and it was soo much better.
You have it backwards. It only works if you can park it anywhere and it DOESN‘T work with dedicated parking spaces. Then they become useless. If you can park them anywhere they will organically distributed to where people mostly need them which is a perfect extension of public transport.
sure, But it worked in Aarhus and it worked in London - not sure where else had such a system. And also anywhere-parking rentals is when it fucks with the people who actually live in the city. And any day, anywhere, I'll prioritize locals over visitors.
Assuming you're a driver, how would you feel if there were suddenly 20% more cars in the city, taking up parking spaces?
We have both in my city and one works, the other stays unused. Because no one needs a bike that they can only park in specific places - then they use their own bike.
Well sure, having a system that slightly inconveniences visitors and doesn't fucks with locals, and then also having a system that's convenient for visitors, but fucks with locals. When both are available, I wonder which system visitors will use?
Having both systems is even worse than just having the park-anywhere rentals.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 8h ago
Good ideas do not work with bad people.