"Of course I'd like to borrow a bike.....the cabs aren't ruinning today"Give out 8 million bikes tithe residents of NYC. At 200 per bike thats 1.6 billion. That’s cheaper than a loan to Solyndra.
"Of course I'd like to borrow a bike.....the cabs aren't ruinning today"An annual membership of $95? Wow, K Mart has a 21 speed for $85.
Wait until they start taxing cars out of cities and people are forced to ride bikes.
People who say “the economics don’t add up” and then do not provide any useful information about the economics are stupid.
Nowhere does the article mention that there are 100,000 people paying those annual memberships already. On top of that, there are the daily users paying as well. So maybe Mr. Ransom needs to go back to economics class, because the program is massively oversubscribed, and is adding capacity to deal with the huge demand.
Yes, you can buy a bike at Walmart, but then you have to either leave it on the street where it gets stolen, or haul the heavy P.O.S. up and down stairs in NYC, or try to get it onto your elevator which in most buildings isn’t allowed.
People who decide that they just hate bicycles, because they suspect that liberals like them are really the stupidest sort of shit.
People who say “the economics don’t add up” and then do not provide any useful information about the economics are stupid.
Nowhere does the article mention that there are 100,000 people paying those annual memberships already. On top of that, there are the daily users paying as well. So maybe Mr. Ransom needs to go back to economics class, because the program is massively oversubscribed, and is adding capacity to deal with the huge demand.
Yes, you can buy a bike at Walmart, but then you have to either leave it on the street where it gets stolen, or haul the heavy P.O.S. up and down stairs in NYC, or try to get it onto your elevator which in most buildings isn’t allowed.
People who decide that they just hate bicycles, because they suspect that liberals like them are really the stupidest sort of shit.
Maybe the Mayor could start another new fad by taking the carriages he banned from Central Park and putting them back on the streets. After all, they don’t use the satanic fossil fuels and there would be a real spurt in employment at buggy whip manufacturers.
I notice that someone is touting richshaws, pulled by the homeless and/or jobless. Now on the surface, this appears to be a twofer— an Environmentally clean and job creating solution.
But it is clear that this thinking is racist. Everyone knows that the group with the highest rate of unemployment are black youth. Harnessing them to rickshaws to pull rich white people around is an obviously racist proposal. Now if you reversed the situation and made only white people pull jobless black youth around, that would be acceptable. However, we’d have to have a government study on whether rickshaws lend themselves to drive-by shootings. That might take years and a billion or so because tenured professors are so busy with their own important research and grants.
Gosh, I wish the world wasn’t so complicated so government bureaucrats would have it easier to develop programs and rules to lead us to the perfect progressive world..
They are not saying if this is per month, per year or since the program started. I'm guessing per year. At $6833 per bike, that's only $823.25 per trip. For that kind of money, you could take a cab both ways to La Guardia and fly to the west coast and back.
It also means that one out of 23.4 residents is actually taking a trip, probably less because there are most likely a small number of users doing multiple trips.
Back in the 1980s when I was in college, I bought a refurbished $40 bike at a second hand store and used it daily, the equivalent of 5.5 cents per trip. I chained it to a tree where my lady friend lived the day I finished my last final for graduation and gave her the combination, so the actual per trip cost was probably less.
I’ve been thinking about safety issues. Now it’s great that someone remembered helmets are de regurre and provided them free to riders who couldn’t afford their own. I assume that knee pads and elbow pads were assumed to be something that everyone could provide with some discrete rags wrapped around the areas.
However, I checked and helmets run from about $20 low end to several hundred dollars. I hope that the City didn’t provide low end safety helments. You get what you pay for, and giving the poor low end helmets would be discriminatory and another form of oppression of the poor by the wealthy elites.
And we know who this is aimed at. This is another coded form of racism. In effect, it is another example of racist unequal treatment, probably to cause concussions and even death among the deserving poor. (note: I did NOT mean they are deserving of death)
The poor should rise up and just rip off these bikes for themselves if they want to ride around NY. It will be a form of reparations for past unequal treatment.