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They should remove Seattle's entry here. The Pronto network was cancelled in March due to disuse. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/seattle-bike-s

They should remove Seattle's entry here. The Pronto network was cancelled in March due to disuse. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/seattle-bike-share-pronto-goes-under/513575/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/seattle-bike-...

robbiet480 9y ago
Weirdly there was a pull request [1] merged already to remove Pronto, not sure why it's still appearing... [1]: https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/pull/242 https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/pull/242
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jchanimal 9y ago
Seattle has a mandatory helmet law. Are there any successful bike shares in places with helmet laws?
- Tiktaalik 9y ago
  Vancouver's seems to be pretty successful and BC has a bike helmet law. Vancouver's Mobi bike system did a good job with their messaging around helmets to make it optional to users. There is a helmet attached to each bike lock, and a convenient basket on the bike where you can put the helmet if you don't want to use it.
- r3bl 9y ago
  Yes, when those laws are in place, but almost never actually enforced. Nextbike[0] is extremely popular in my city, even though my country has a helmet law in place. They also offer a bike for 30 minutes per day completely free (you can also rent two bikes for free at the same time), so that alone makes it a pretty easy way to travel through half a city without paying a dime. Not a day goes by without me seeing one[1]. As far as my experience goes, the country did try heavily enforcing the helmet law when they first introduced it (about a decade ago), now it seems to me like the police simply doesn't care if you're wearing a helmet or not. Of course, if you commit any other traffic violation on a bike, you can be pretty damn sure that they're gonna bundle it with "not wearing a helmet" fine. [0] https://nextbike.com/ https://nextbike.com/ [1] I live within a walking distance from the place I work in, so there's no need for me to use one every day.

robbiet480 9y ago

Weirdly there was a pull request [1] merged already to remove Pronto, not sure why it's still appearing... [1]: https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/pull/242 https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/pull/242

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jchanimal 9y ago

Seattle has a mandatory helmet law. Are there any successful bike shares in places with helmet laws?

Tiktaalik 9y ago
Vancouver's seems to be pretty successful and BC has a bike helmet law. Vancouver's Mobi bike system did a good job with their messaging around helmets to make it optional to users. There is a helmet attached to each bike lock, and a convenient basket on the bike where you can put the helmet if you don't want to use it.
r3bl 9y ago
Yes, when those laws are in place, but almost never actually enforced. Nextbike[0] is extremely popular in my city, even though my country has a helmet law in place. They also offer a bike for 30 minutes per day completely free (you can also rent two bikes for free at the same time), so that alone makes it a pretty easy way to travel through half a city without paying a dime. Not a day goes by without me seeing one[1]. As far as my experience goes, the country did try heavily enforcing the helmet law when they first introduced it (about a decade ago), now it seems to me like the police simply doesn't care if you're wearing a helmet or not. Of course, if you commit any other traffic violation on a bike, you can be pretty damn sure that they're gonna bundle it with "not wearing a helmet" fine. [0] https://nextbike.com/ https://nextbike.com/ [1] I live within a walking distance from the place I work in, so there's no need for me to use one every day.