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

Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by majormajor on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:56PM (#17443918)

"Point to point" is a huge part of the appeal of cars over the existing public transportation network. We dedicate a ton of space to enabling point to point for cars, and barely any for bike docks and the like.

Dockless scooters are the most effective thing I've seen yet - in very limited areas, so far - at starting to combat the limitations of the public transit network compared to the road/sidewalk/parking lot network. Bikes are too big to work well in this way, but scooters have done well.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by karthikb on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:03PM (#17443981)

And yet in a congested city, the closest car parking may be 2-3 blocks. Not a huge advantage over bike docks.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by majormajor on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:28PM (#17446221)

Two to three blocks is much less than the amount of walking I would have to do as part of a typical within-3-mile local trip using either local bike-sharing bikes or public transportation. That would be 6-10+ blocks of walking, and a transfer or two (in the case of bus or rail). So I'll drive or lyft, because that's a pretty big convenience/flexibility advantage, especially if I'm making multiple stops.

But Birds are increasingly tempting because I usually see one within one to two blocks of my apartment.

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