I'm always surprised to see people using these in my city. I immediately think tourist because any day of the week you can buy a ten-speed on craigslist if you're a student or a commuter. Here you buy an annual membership and pay by the half-hour.

A lot of times the racks are full, so do people have to ride around finding an empty spot? That sucks.

Yeah you're fucked if a rack is full. It effectively cuts your "free" time down to 20 minutes because you have to build in a safety, and that's IF you know where all the nearby racks are.

This is just such a wishful idea meets terrible implementation. No way are these things going unvandalized and the price scheme is bonkers. I'm convinced there's no way this was started as anything but pork.


I'm picturing the Boston ones being targeted by MIT kids cracking the locks.

for a 10-speed on Craigslist?!?!!? HOOK ME UP WITH THAT LINK IN NYC.

New Yorkers hate bicycles. They want golf carts!

I guess where I'm at, there's still a good amount of 70s-80s bikes to be had that haven't been converted to single gear or fixed or whatever.

They need to interview him whenever privileged white people bitch and moan about things of benefit to others.

I'd like to know his thoughts on upper-class neighborhoods that wont allow the construction of covered bus stops so the people who clean their houses and maintain their lawns have to wait for the bus in the rain.

Nothing turns people into self important assholes quite like having kids and home ownership.

My town has a total overnight street parking ban from November to April. While every other sane town only has such a ban during snow emergencies, we have it for half the year. A couple tries to overturn it were crushed. The town has no reason to change it because they're making money, and homeowners love nothing more than flaunting the fact that they have a driveway. Screw you, renters!