Uh I think it's pretty difficult to know the history of Lyft bike share, through Motivate, Alta, 8D, and the Montreal Public Bike System, and conclude that it was a neoliberal silicon valley idea.
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This is not a complete list, but I looked at the largest bike sharing systems and most are publicly owned Publicly owned: Montreal Toronto CDMX Boston Barcelona Chicago LA DC Portland Philadelphia Paris Taipei London Amsterdam Seville Privately owned: SF NYC Toyko
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While publicly owned bike share systems can be more effective than privately owned systems the operational model can also have an impact. In China I found systems run by the local transportation department were more effective than public private partnerships. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Thanks for the research! It matches my intuition that bike share works best integrated with a public transit network.
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