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Re:Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next? by puzzle on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:27PM (#18870094)
You're forgetting the gBikes abandoned at the MTV Caltrain station or outside random stores/parks (not always by Google employees or interns). That and the new restaurants on Castro Street. The former is a net negative, the latter a positive.
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Re:Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next? by scruffyherder on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:55PM (#18871140)
> gBikes

bike sharing schemes are such a plague. And people were all shocked when GoBee up and died. now we have their stupid bikes littered all over the place.

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Re:Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next? by rossng on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:51AM (#18872472)
Bike sharing schemes aren't all bad. Copenhagen has Donkey Republic[1] which works well and doesn't seem to cause any issues.

Of course it helps that they city is flat - San Francisco is clearly more suited to electrically-assisted modes of transport.

[1] https://www.donkey.bike/cities/bike-rental-copenhagen/

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Re:Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next? by dekhn on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:43PM (#18871093)
i didn't really go east of 101 for the 10 years I worked there.
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