Sunday, April 16, 2017

Bye-Bye, Bikes!

Last week, there were bikes here.  Now there are none.  All gone!  Well, it was a bad and expensive idea that just got worse and more expensive as it went along.  OK, so they were installed in the urban core where there were plenty of better options in a city with iffy weather.  I only saw tourists riding them and very few at that.  It was pointless.  And now it's gone after the city paid like $400,000 for it.  It could have worked in a place that has better planning, but Seattleites get stuff foisted on them because they have no vision of the future.  Anyhow, bikesharing was a novelty that spiraled out of control.  Yeesh, this ain't Copenhagen.  

2 comments:

triptrumpet said...

I could see a miniature program working that advertised itself as only trying to connect (via bike paths) the U to Fremont to Ballard to Myrtle Edwards/Olympic Sculpture Park to the waterfront to the Int'l District. All flat-connected stuff, with the bonus of being both touristic and having local appeal to be able to connect with places to eat and drink offering different points of view of the city. And probably faster than the bus or rail if you are already near one of those places.

Igor Keller said...

The only problem was that it was only in the downtown core and Capitol Hill. It was a bad plan in a city known for its bad planning...