10-02-2018, 03:45 PM
(10-02-2018, 02:24 PM)welltoldtales Wrote: Lime touts they can do 13MPH, which is 21Km/h and most people report you can go faster on a downhill.
The whole dropbike thing is frustrating. But this has a lot to do with Cambridge constantly complaining they are being left out of deals and then not actually want to take part in regional initiatives. There is a big push by regional staff to be seen as cross regional (and this is stretching to the townships) and so they always present options to Cambridge even when it doesn't make statisical sense (the bike lane project). It's the nature of the region these days and frustrating.
One frustrating part for me is the RFP process. Like Lime is going to be here installed this fall... Lime also has a whole dockless bike share component. Why didn't the bid before? It would be great if we had one app for the region and could get on either a bike or a scooter.
This was absolutely DropBike's argument. The city however felt that competition was a good thing...
DropBike's agreement is exclusive, which is probably why Limebike was unable to pursue a bike share component.