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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.