Darn climate and topography.
No government program is successful for long. I can’t believe some of the cities on the list that want to buy the equipment.
Tulsa, OK? You either freeze your butt off, roast in the heat, or get blown away by a storm. Tulsa is full of do-gooder Chamber of Commerce types who just love to spend other people’s money on so-called economic development.
“But it had to deal with a challenging environment — a hilly, rainy city with a mandatory helmet law and a downtown area clogged with traffic and with few protected bikeways.”
The city planners didn’t think of these obstacles.
Bike sharing works pretty well in other cities.
Too bad it couldn’t be successful in that location.”
It rains a lot in Seattle and there hills everywhere, especially right in downtown.
Seattle has too many steep hills. Imagine pushing your bike up several blocks of steep hill in the rain.