Probably a lot of theft and damage going on...
Theft and damage. We had red bikes and scooters for a while and now they just have scooters. The red bikes were taken to the homeless camps and dismantled. They were ridden around by homeless people with makeshift trailers. They were left in the streets or thrown in the river. No wonder they didn’t make any money. Now they are gone. The scooters are still around as they are more durable but there are far fewer of them. When I contemplate the idea of renting bicycles I think of what Jesus said about pearls and swine. Air b n b the same thing. We live among swine.
When I lived in Europe they tried having those rental scooters in the city squares. When I stayed in Wroclaw Poland for a while there were so many tourists that tore up the town square, crashed in to cars, and crashed in to tourists, the locals took every one of them and tossed them in the canal. I don’t know if they ever tried again.