Yah, SURE /laughs ... Us deplorable bitter clingers in the NYC suburbs really believe any of the nonsensical excuses about *anything* that any of the silly screwball leftists of NYC say, ehhhhh ??? /laughs
Here we have a NYC based, public bicycle short term rental program, sponsored by a U.S. mega-Corporation, CitiCorp; run by a U.S. based ride sharing Corporation; Lyft ... which is kinda a bit of a nice thing as it were .... b-b-bb-but supposedly, according Lyft and CitiCorp, a 240% increase in street bicycle rental prices from 2019 to 2025 is due to "Tariffs" ... as if the street price for a rental bike in NYC has anything to do with international trade involving 'tariffs' !!! /laughs
Only some dopey full-tilt TDS Leftist idiot could ever come up with such nonsense, but yet they do ... YIKES !!!
They could try and work down the rental, to absorb some of the tariffs.
From what I see. I’ll have me some more of these tariffs!
New Yorker’s are so naive. You can buy a bike cheaper than renting it. But there must be some government kickback scheme involve in this. $239.00 a year to rent one for a year
“You will own nothing. And you will be happy.”
Probably a lot of theft and damage going on...
Ditto for San Francisco - there are Lyft bikes everywhere for rent.
One of our bikes was in the shop so my son had to rent a Lyft bike for use twice - cost = $70. And these were for short rides, not all day use.
Sounds like the lies I just got from the new property manager at my shop. “Due to increased costs of building maintenance “ they raised the rent 40% via “fee” that was never there. Since they took over they have not done any work, my roof still leaks, and the parking lot still floods when it rains because the sump pump stopped working years ago. I hate liars. Just say you raise the cost because you want more money. Don’t write some BS sob story filled with lies.
Probably to cover the funeral costs of their blown up and run over customers.
First hit is free, and then they start raising the prices until they hit market resistance, or a competitor enters the market. Then you either whack the competitor or lower prices to compete until one of you goes broke.
Glad to see the international banksters and dupolists are learning from drug dealers how to turn a profit.
It was a political project from the beginning, to get people out of cars in Manhattan especially, and as a political project they likely low-balled the subscription prices in the early years to build up ridership. Bicycle riding in Manhattan is now ubiquitous. Maybe now subscription costs are trying to capture some of financial losses from the early years.