One of the most ridiculous facts that gets overlooked in all this is that the bike share wanted to offer cheaper day passes to use the bikes. The bike rental sh

One of the most ridiculous facts that gets overlooked in all this is that the bike share wanted to offer cheaper day passes to use the bikes. The bike rental shops pushed back and said it would harm their business so the bike share couldn't offer a cheap daily pass and had to push people to either a very short rental (say 30-45 minutes) or a long term membership. Now everyone blames the bike share for not having a reasonable pass to bike for a few hours or the whole day even though it was their competition that made it that way!