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David C - ask yourself: if EVERYBODY commuted using CaBi, would that work? If we lived in a city where there were jobs everywhere and people living everywhere and lots of flexible start times (like Berlin, which has a most excellent pay-what-you-ride bikeshare system) then sure. But we live in a city of residential-to-center city, rush hour commutes. So there is no way to have CaBi serve all the commutes without expanding it impractically far. Just think about it.

beatbox: I don't think there should be a $75 annual fee. I think everybody in the city should be encouraged sign up for a CaBi key, and we should all pay for what we ride on a per minute basis. That way CaBi can benefit the widest possible range of people, people pay their fair share, there is a growing revenue stream as the system gets used more, and daily users are gently nudged to buy a bike (or maybe not so gently, as per Richard Layman's suggestion).

And really, how many of you would care? Not theoretically care, but care, like "oh that is going to cost me 25/75/95 cents, I'll walk" - really? (We only have first-half-hour-free because Velib did and they did because they didn't have the technology to bill by the minute exactly).

I'm amazed at how much this has started to look like a "don't you take away my free street parking" thread. Look in the mirror people.

by egk on Mar 23, 2011 8:53 pm • link • report