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Here are just two recent examples of this not working out well in Seattle: Someone abandoned one on a ferry, prompting a $17,000 search: http://kuow.org/post/

Here are just two recent examples of this not working out well in Seattle: Someone abandoned one on a ferry, prompting a $17,000 search: http://kuow.org/post/don-t-leave-bike-shares-ferries-coast-guard-will-think-you-ve-drowned http://kuow.org/post/don-t-leave-bike-shares-ferries-coast-g... ... and piles of them are being left in people’s yards, too: http://amp.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-of-limebikes-end-up-in-seattle-homeowners-yard-some-are-laughing-others-arent/699194630 http://amp.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-of-lime... There is a very significant aspect of externalities happening here, in my opinion.

StudentStuff 9y ago
That yard full of bikes was a prank for a 40th birthday party. I hope you don't think that is common, I'm in Magnolia (the neighborhood where that happened) often and have yet to see a single bike in someone's yard. Same for Ballard, Northgate, Queen Anne & Fremont, people generally put these bikes right at the edge of the sidewalk or in the median between the road and sidewalk, the same space a telephone pole, tree or trashcan would go.