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[M] dockless bikes compete for marketshare
RS Wood writes:
From the «but do they blend?» department: Title: How cheap dockless hire bikes are flooding the world Author: Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 19:12:09 -0400 Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44066083 Dockless bike tech has massively boosted bike-sharing. Is it the future of two-wheeled transport? In Finland there's now a semi-docked (meaning you can leave a bike near the dock even if it's full) bike system in the capital Helsinki and adjacent Espoo. Heavily subsidized by the towns of course but apparently fairly popular. Lots of trucking the bikes around too. I wonder how the dockless systems fare with this, picking up individual bikes from where ever people drop them has to be more expensive than moving them between docks. And of course, in Finland this service is for the warmer half of the year. While some people say weather is just a matter of dress it takes a fairly hardcore biker to ride in ice and snow. Personally, if I went about three clicks from home to a train stop in Espoo, I could take a local train to near my office in Helsinki and use one of those bikes or walk the kilometer or so to the office. Unfortunately it's a slow train so this takes two to three times more than going by car and doesn't give much exercise benefits either. |
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