From an NPR story today
"I don't understand why they would put those bikes there. 'Cause a lot of people [are] not gonna ride those bikes," Lavora Peoples says. Peoples lives in a lower-income section of Washington, D.C., called Anacostia. There are several bike-sharing stations here, but resident Diego Belton says not a lot people are using them. In part, Belton says, that's because a lot of residents don't have some of the basic things you need in order to rent the bikes.
"Downtown D.C., that's more where the people have, like, credit cards. You know, you need a credit card or some type of payment plan like that to even use these bikes," Belton says. "Young people around here like in Southeast, they don't got no credit cards.
I thought Bikeshare was looking into a system that didn't require a credit card for folks who didn't have ones. That's especially important for the part up in Rockville which is designed especially to help folks with low-incomes to get to work. Any idea if that's still moving forward?
Posted by: Shannon | December 13, 2013 at 11:03 PM