Public bike sharing coming to Detroit

[DetroitBoy]

For those of you who don't follow bike culture or travel much, bike-share programs are a common feature of progressive cities. You sign up, and then you can retrieve a bike from any of a number of locations. And you can return to a different location. Great way to get around less car-centric cities.

I hope they intend to secure those bikes in a concrete bunker at each location or they will be ripped off on the first day. Detroit is on the rebound, but progressive it isn't unless you consider constant crime in progress in that definition.

[MSUguy]

I hope they intend to secure those bikes in a concrete bunker at each location or they will be ripped off on the first day. Detroit is on the rebound, but progressive it isn't unless you consider constant crime in progress in that definition.

I was going was say something but Micheal Jackman's article about the bike share program pretty much sums up what needs to be said to people like you.

"So, yes, somebody is already thinking these issues through — which means there's really no need to try to warn anybody in the comments section with your genius-level insights about Detroit and crime"

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2015/08/24/detroit-to-get-bike-sharing-program

[SyGolden48236]

I was going was say something but Micheal Jackman's article about the bike share program pretty much sums up what needs to be said to people like you.

"So, yes, somebody is already thinking these issues through — which means there's really no need to try to warn anybody in the comments section with your genius-level insights about Detroit and crime"

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2015/08/24/detroit-to-get-bike-sharing-program

Don't assign too much credibility to the Metro Times. A "newspaper" with no paid circulation that employs junior-varsity level "reporters" and derives the bulk of its revenue from ads for prostitutes and the illicit drug trade cannot be taken too seriously.

[Shai_Hulud]

I hope they intend to secure those bikes in a concrete bunker at each location or they will be ripped off on the first day. Detroit is on the rebound, but progressive it isn't unless you consider constant crime in progress in that definition.

The Zagster bikes have been downtown for two years now and the racks are full in the early am, so it seems they haven't lost too many of them.

[iheartthed]

I hope they intend to secure those bikes in a concrete bunker at each location or they will be ripped off on the first day. Detroit is on the rebound, but progressive it isn't unless you consider constant crime in progress in that definition.

Yeah, nobody has ever [[EVER!!!!) thought about stealing a bike in any other city except Detroit.

http://gothamist.com/2015/04/16/bike_thieves_abound.php