Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike

Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:23PM (#17443604)

> hitting a pothole on that Lime thing is liable to stop all forward momentum suddenly and precariously

Didn't think of this. Makes sense why they're doing well on the West Coast but not yet rolling out on New York's ice-torn streets.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by ebikelaw on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:31PM (#17443683)

Oakland, California has some of the worst streets in America, and getting worse. There are Limes and Birds on every corner of downtown.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by electricslpnsld on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:34PM (#17443702)

I live near Downtown Oakland and have yet to see one of these Scooters on the road -- so far the primary use case in Oakland seems to be teenagers blasting around Lake Merritt on the weekends.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by ebikelaw on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:34PM (#17443704)

There were 6 on each corner of Broadway & Grand at 7am today.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by ebikelaw on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:06PM (#17444022)

According to the Lime app, there are at least 50 Lime-S scooters within 1km of the corner of Broadway and Telegraph right now. There are 9 outside 12th St BART alone.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by workinfunk on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:48PM (#17443842)

I don't think that's the reason. Huge swaths of midtown, particularly, have near perfect pavement.

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