Love bikeshare, but want it to be cheaper -- with more e-bikes? Ask your local officials to subsidize it.
For years, many cities have expected systems to break even. For bikeshare to grow, that needs to change.
I wrote about bikeshare's past and future in Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90883010/undoing-bikeshares-original-sin
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@davidzipper bike share was cheap when it used plain old mechanical bikes. But cheap meant that it did not bring profits to vendors. So they forced e-bikes onto us all. Now you want us to encourage them with subsidies. I'll pass on this. I'd rather have the good old conventional municipality-managed bike sharing that is still around in many places in Europe.
