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Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition by macroexpanse on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:12AM (#16799400)
Point taken. There should not be a double standard. City legislators need to have the spine to change the law.

I have been following the story of bike share in Seattle. It's a shame that Pronto and Motivate lost the contract.

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Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition by mulmen on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:40AM (#16799498)
Did you catch the part where the city council member that wanted to bail out Pronto was an investor in Pronto? Fun times.
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Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition by macroexpanse on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:01AM (#16801005)
Indeed. Bike share schemes don't need to be publicly funded if run properly. Citi Bike has been a huge success in NYC without taking a dime from taxpayers. Perhaps an ebike system would have been more economically viable in a hilly city like Seattle.
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Re:Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition by mulmen on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:34PM (#16802691)
LimeBike is rolling them out so we will see!
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