Metuchen Bike Share

[Patrick]

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/sto...ounty/2018/06/08/metuchen-limebike/680545002/

Dockless bike share. This should prove an interesting experiment.

Seems that town is a cut-through for commuters, not a live-there, drive to train station. The town is less than 2 miles by 2 miles square(ish)

 

[Bike N Gear]

As a long time Metuchen resident I don't see this working. The majority of our commercial businesses are within 2-3 blocks of each other in the center of town. The traffic they are trying to remove are out of town commuters who get dropped off and picked up daily for the train station. Most locals walk to the train. Unless these bikes are scattered throughout the residential streets, I don't see many locals using them to reduce traffic.

 

[Steve Vai]

I've seen these things scattered around the streets of Plainfield during my commute. I was wondering what was going on with all the green bikes.

 

[Bike N Gear]

I guess these could be a cheap rental bike for people interested in riding the Middlesex Greenway.

 

[liong71er]

I saw these same bikes scattered around east Chicago bordering with Indiana unlocked,as well during my tip there last years, and now made it way here, crazy!!

 

[pooriggy]

I've seen these things scattered around the streets of Plainfield during my commute. I was wondering what was going on with all the green bikes.

Convient alternative to go to corner store for cigarettes, booze, scratch offs and crack.

 

[Steve Vai]

And the ones in Plainfield have already all been stolen. Every bike is located in someone's backyard or in the woods.

There's 2 in the woods near my house. I should go grab whatever's left of them and build my own.

 

[qclabrat]

Dockless bikes don't work. Either too expensive with all the GPS stuff or too cheap with nothing.

 

[liong71er]

This morning 8:30am saw a dude walking lime bike and talking to himself..in yonkers.

 

[JimN]

I ride bike share bikes whenever I go to a city that has them available. Most are like NYC where you have to bring them back to a dock. I've not seen a dockless one yet, but Portland has an interesting compromise. There are specific docks, but you can also lock them up to any bike rack in the city. If you lock them up outside of the main downtown area it's an extra dollar or something, depending on your membership level. The GPS and all logic is in the bike, so the official bike docks are basically just normal bike racks. You punch your account number and pin into a computer on the bike itself to unlock the ulock, and then you can just lock it wherever when you are done. The app shows how many bikes are in each dock, and where the randomly docked bikes are. You can also hold a bike for thirty minutes, meaning nobody else can take it. It was pretty interesting.

 

[Magic]

This morning 8:30am saw a dude walking lime bike and talking to himself..in yonkers.
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How long does the GPS battery last? Lol.

 

[Pearl]

these are all over Charlotte. sometimes you see them in trailheads, on the side of the interstate, or in creeks. rather humorous. not sure if it "works" or not...

 

[Bike N Gear]

Had a customer bring a Lime bike in to see if we could "cut the talking GPS lock off this bike he found." Apparently all the stickers explaining what the bike was didn't mean anything to him. I'm sure he left here to go remove it with his sawzall.