Bike Share in Waterloo Region

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"They" as in the municipalities?

Yep. The cities have, or should have, quite different goals for bikeshare than the Working Centre.

Meanwhile, considering how little use the Working Centre bikes get and how hard the system is to use, the current programs is no better than just giving out bikes to people who need them.

Do you really think the number of bikeshare users is less than the total number of bikeshare bicycles?

The bikes are hardly the only cost of the program - they have to set the bikes out and bring them back in seasonally, they need to maintain them, deal with vandalism, potentially rebalance, maintain the key system, sign people up, maintain memberships, etc. There's overhead. And honestly? I'm actually not sure that Community Access Bicycles does have more users than it does bikes.