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Friday, November 15, 2019

Bike sharing

Despite the pretty picture on the Bruin Bike Share website above, yours truly hasn't seen a lot of students (or anyone else) actually riding them. He has seen a lot of students on private motorized e-scooters and e-bikes, however. And in reading a local Santa Monica news site, he finds that Santa Monica's city-run bike share program (conventional self-pedaling bikes that, like UCLA's, aren't motorized and that you can only leave in designated racks), is losing money as the private motorized competition has increased.

See: http://santamonicalookout.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2019/November-2019/11_14_2019_Santa_Monicas_Breeze_Bike_Share_Up_in_the_Air.html

So he wonders about the cost of keeping UCLA's version of the Santa Monica system going.
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1 comment:

  1. KevinNovember 15, 2019 at 7:51 PM

    Santa Cruz has only Jump bikes (motorized)—no rental scooters and no rental pedal bikes. The Jump bikes have been pretty successful.

    I've never understood the rental pedal bike market: pedal bikes of the quality of the rentals are cheap to buy, so rentals are only for tourists or people doing mixed-mode transportation with a bus. E-bikes are expensive enough that renting one makes some sense if you don't use it daily.

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