As a counterpoint, when I commuted to an office in NYC I relied on CitiBike for the last leg of my journey, as did several thousand other office workers. I wil

As a counterpoint, when I commuted to an office in NYC I relied on CitiBike for the last leg of my journey, as did several thousand other office workers. I will admit there were a few days where I stood in a line outside of Penn Station to wait for a bike, and on those days biking was no faster than taking the subway. New York has a lot of commuters coming into the center which meant a shortage of bikes near train stations in the morning and a shortage of docks there at the end of the day. (They had workers in box trucks rebalancing, and eventually an scheme [1] akin to dynamic pricing to incentivize regular users to rebalance bikes themselves.) I think a larger issue preventing the success of bike share is the fact that the US is an automobile-first culture so biking is unsafe in most parts of the US. The first thing I noticed when seeing bike commuters in other countries was the number of there were old folks, kids, and women biking for transportation in the city -- unlike the US where the majority of bike commuters are adult men with a high risk tolerance. [1] https://citibikenyc.com/bike-angels https://citibikenyc.com/bike-angels