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I live in the biggest dockless bike market currently and its an eyesore. Our corrupt government has decided not to even think about making legislation about the
by bfuller 9y ago
I live in the biggest dockless bike market currently and its an eyesore. Our corrupt government has decided not to even think about making legislation about the companies until September.
People are getting very sick of seeing them laying all around and its starting to go the way of Paris, whose people rose up against the bike share companies and got them to pull out through sheer vandalism.
Someone cut one in half and mounted it on a telephone pole the other day
- dawhizkid 9y agoJump's value prop is not so much being dockless but being an electric bike. You can't leave Jump bikes anywhere like other dockless bike companies (smart move on their part...I'm sure each bike is at least $1000) i.e. you actually have to lock/unlock the bike from a bike rack to use and if you don't properly lock the bike after use you're liable as a customer if it's stolen. It's an important difference IMO and means that you don't see these laying around everywhere.
- bfuller 9y agoUnfortunately there's an ordinance in my city saying you can't use an ebike without a helmet or something so the bike shares here aren't touching ebikes yet.
- chaoticmass 9y agoAre you in Dallas?
- baud147258 9y ago> the way of Paris, whose people rose up against the bike share companies and got them to pull out through sheer vandalism. I think you're confusing the cause for the vandalism, it is much more "casual", the bikes are vandalised because they are there and the companies stupidly provided fragile bikes. Also the opposition from the city council did not help.
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- bfuller 9y agoI'm not confusing anything. I can point you to many social media posts urging people to vandalize them because they are annoyed at the bike share. The bikes being absolutely littered everywhere does create a lot of opportunistic vandals, but there FOR SURE is a concerted effort to fuck over the companies.
- baud147258 9y agoI did not see any of these, but maybe it's because of my near-zero use of social media. So I'll take your word for it, that some of the bike degradations were caused to fuck the companies.