City with the best bike share system? (gated, pricing)
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As an avid cyclist, I'm excited to see so many cities create bike shares across the country. There's no better way to explore a city when the weather is nice, imo. My question to the more frequent travelers on this forum is this: which city currently has the best bike share system, in your opinion?
Weigh in all factors such as quality of the bikes, coverage, pricing, etc. Not just the cities themselves. While some cities will inherently be more bikeable than others, due to density, street layout, bike lanes and other factors, that doesn't automatically mean their system is necessarily the best (translation: NYC doesn't get an automatic win here).
I know Chicago has 535 stations and 9,200 available bike slots. It's used by around 16,000 people per day or 500,000 per month during the warmer months, fewer during the winter, but still by hundreds of thousands per day.
The city has invested tremendously in hundreds of miles of protected/segregated bike lanes throughout the city. Many of them now have their own dedicated stop lights at intersections.
Its actually a good thing they're getting rid of bike share in Seattle. It was implemented horribly, and a new one will come back in one or two years once they get some bike infrastructure built, which is what they're doing with the money that would have gone to bike share.
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