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Until there are too many.

• jessaustin 10y ago
  Is this a slippery-slope argument? "You might not mind five bikes parked on your block; what about a THOUSAND?" Five shared bikes on a block would probably remove at least a couple of automobiles from the block, on average, so I'm all for it! Presumably cars would disappear entirely well before we got to a thousand shared bikes, so if we stopped then we'd be fine...
  • mdrzn 10y ago
    Five is ok, if there's a place meant to be the bike parking place. If not, that's five bikes locked up to poles and street signals. What about a hundred?
    • jessaustin 10y ago
      Does the block have 500 shared-bike riders present at any particular time? Conservatively assuming that the average rider is riding an hour a day (which would be 24:1), a 5:1 riders to bikes ratio is also a conservative assumption. If there are that many riders, then by all means it's reasonable to have 100 bikes present as well. If there aren't enough poles and racks, the bike company or the city can plant some more. It still won't cost near as much as maintaining the streets.