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On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Scott Morris Rose <stink...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was a founding member of  Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a
> conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city,
> which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing
> it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the
> ashes of that subsidized system have arisen two competing unsubsidized
> systems - Lime and Spin - which both use a dockless model. The way that
> works is that the bikes have wheel locks that are unlocked when the bike is
> rented. Locking the wheel lock ends the rental. There are some trade-offs
> between the models, which mostly in my view skew in favor of the dockless
> systems.
>
> With a dockless system, there is never the problem that a user will arrive
> at the dock closest to their destination only to find that they can't end
> the rental due to a full dock. There is also never the problem that the
> dock is further from the user's destination (as long as the destination is
> in the service area, which is the Seattle city limits for both systems)
> that they have a substantial hike to that destination - users park the bike
> wherever they can find empty sidewalk. There is no concept of membership -
> users install an app and pay only for each of the rides they take - both
> systems at $1/.5h. (There is also no escalating charge for longer rentals -
> each .5h segment is $1.) That lowers the barrier to entry for visitors, who
> only need to install and configure an app on their phones.
>
> On the downside, there is nothing to keep a malevolent passerby from
> chucking a bike into the Ship Canal, as the bikes aren't tethered to a dock
> or anything else between rentals. How substantial a problem that is, only
> time will tell, but evidently it has been a problem with the similar system
> in Manchester, and is a problem in Mountain View with Google's free bikes.
> First time I saw a dockless share system was several years ago in Kyoto,
> and I suspect they have very little problem there with vandalism, because
> Japan.
>
> I had a chance to see the systems in action during my Seattle trip this
> weekend, and I've attached photos of the bikes, which I didn't try as I had
> my own bike with me. I did install the Spin app, and it's simple both to
> configure and to use. Bikes of both systems were very prevalent in the
> neighborhoods I rode in, mostly along the Ship Canal (U District, Fremont,
> Ballard) and downtown. And people were riding them.
>
> Another issue is with helmets, use of which is required by law in King
> County. Neither Lime nor Spin offer helmets with their bike or as a
> distinct rental, while Pronto! provided them with each bike, along with a
> presumably expensive scheme for cleaning them. That's going to lead to
> rampant scofflaw behavior. Or, more accurately, continue rampant scofflaw
> behavior - even many people on their own bikes ignore the law.
>
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> S. Rose
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S. Rose
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