Six Grand per bike? Are they titanium professional racing bikes? Yeah, they’ll last through a season.
Good Lord. Liberals gone wild!
No, they’re cro-moly cruiser bikes, most likely. Costs around 300$ a pop. Most likely, since this is a government buying in bulk, the bikes are going to cost a bit less per unit. The 6000 is probably for administrative costs like placing locking stations, using unionized labor to transport the lockups at 40$ an hour, paying the administrators around 80 thousand dollars a year, paying the maintenance man his 30$ an hour to maintain the credit card machines, et al.
I’m sure 6 grand is the average cost per bike when you include everything: cost of the stand, land cost, hiring new employees, etc...
The point is at $6,000 per bike on the street, the money could be better spent.
I liked the suggestion one person made, get rickshaws instead of bikes. Each rickshaw would employee a person to pull it and thus reduce unemployment.
I said that in jest, but I’m sure some big govt. progressive is thinking “rickshaws, what a greate idea, just another kind of shovel ready job”.