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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by usrusr on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:51PM (#17444390)
Bike share meshes with public transit in a way that personal bikes does not.

The concept of dual personal bikes on both ends of a regularly taken transit leg, but it comes worry a maintenance/trash problem surprisingly similar to dockless spam. European train stations are surrounded by reefs of semi-abandoned "away side" bikes.

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Re:Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of... by stevesimmons on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:12PM (#17446146)
In the Netherlands this is solved by periodically tagging bikes locked up outside stations. Any bikes still with tags a week or two later are presumed abandoned and removed.
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