What exactly is stopping some anti-social boomer or teenager from chucking them all into the water?
I reject the premise and instead ask why would someone throw them in the water? The answer to that question is something that needs to be socially addressed, the bikes don’t need to justify themselves.
“The public can’t have nice things because the plebs will just mindlessly destroy them.” - boomer brainworms
Adding to that, the numbers look much worse when you have a society with no expectation of trust, then you add one thing that requires trust. Everyone who was going to wake up that day and decide to senselessly destroy public property is going to destroy that one thing you’ve installed.
You can only do so much damage before you get caught and punished. Why don’t people do this to library books?
sorry i legitimitely dont get this eli5 plz
You take the subway or bus near your destination, then pull out a city bike for the last mile.
Really. That’s the whole idea. These are to eliminate the need for cars, and parking lots, and pollution, and urban sprawl, and all of that shit. I’ve seen it work in Shanghai. It works great.
But it doesn’t fucking work if the population are wreckers who are determined to keep their cars no matter what because of MUH FREEDUMBS
I actually have no idea what the hell this chud sees in this picture
I’m just surprised that people are trying to bring bike-shares back. That didn’t seem to be a good business model even when you had 0IR funny money to throw around.
Toronto and Montreal have had em for years, funded by the city/ parking authority, and they rip. Stations everywhere, cheap as, don’t have to worry about anyone nicking them. Biggest problem is finding an available bike since a lot of commuters ride one way and they have to rearrange overflows by hand, and delivery guys hogging the fancy new e-bikes all day. But both systems are undergoing/ have undergone huge expansions, and have been widely considered a Good Thing
Drop bikes and scooter rentals are an absolute scourge, though
Of course I see it, you just posted a photo of it