Not all mobility options in Pittsburgh have been profitable, or sustainable without adequate subsidies.
Wait until there’s 3 foot of snow on the ground or it’s pouring rain. Maybe everyone will just stay home. Oh, what’s that you say? That’s the purpose of all this climate change sham? Ok. got it.
Conversely, POGOH, the bike sharing company, announced fleet renovations this year, due to the program’s success.
send more money.
That will work really good in snow
Those things are dangerous and should be removed. Seen many a youth come really close to becoming organ donors using those things. And then they get dumped on side streets or the rare open parking spots. When I find one in front of the house it gets chucked over a hill.
Democrat scum plan to criminalize cars.
Get ready for bike and scooter litter. Blocking sidewalks. Thrown in creeks and sewers. Left in the MIDDLE of crossealks.
Dallas and other cities here in N. Texas tried and gave up.
Manhattan has done everything imaginable to bend traffic accommodations to bicycles.
For pedestrians it has become a nigtmare.
On the avenues the bicyclists now have their own lane running along the curb on one side of the avenue - be super careful stepping off the curb to cross the street (see why below). A car parking lane for some limited parking then extends into the avenue right after the bicycle lane (be careful when crossing and stepping out past that parking lane).
Then you have the further narrowing of the avenues with bus only lanes on one side of the avenue.
Altogether the avenues have of least two fewer lanes for cars, and many have only two lanes for cars. Beyond what was previously mentioned about the bicycle lanes & the added parking lane out beyond that, add to that that most left or right turns from the avenues are now restricted to designated turn lanes, which do not begin near the cross street intesection until a one or two car length after the parking lane - which results in left and right turn traffic spilling, in wait, into the now reduced regular lanes of traffic.
Keeping all that in mind, and going back to the bicyclists:
1. A vast many of the bicyclists in Manhattan are not “civilams” as much as they are delivery persons. And though those delivery pesons are likely not extremely well paid, a vast majority of their employers have them using elecrtric powered bicycles. The average top speed of most electric bicycles is - they say - alost 30mph, but I swear I have seen them going faster than that.
2. YOU the pedestrian are either often ignored by the bicyclists or you are just suppose to look out for them more than the other way around. They are a new “entitled” class.
3. A vast many are ignoring the rules they are supposed to obey - like riding on the sidewalk, avoiding the special traffic lights set for them, ignoring which direction they are supposed to be going, and riding in the car traffic lanes when a designated bicycle lane is provided for them.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/nyc-bicyclists-are-killing-pedestrians-and-the-city-wont-stop-it/
Things were bad enough in 2019 but I am thinking they must be worse here in 2022 since things opened up after the end of the Covid restrrictions.