I was once in Iceland and took a guided tour. The bus stopped at a beautiful waterfall that you can walk behind (no loot). You could see the waterfall from the bus but it was a 10 min walk to get to it. I shit you not, the american couple on the bus decided to stay behind because they didn’t want to walk that far. Now I get that people have medical conditions and all but this seemed mostly like an issue of them being tired because the last two stops already required 10 min walks.
It’s not their fault either. They grew up in a system that stole all forms of movement from them and fed them corn syrup so now a 20 min walk is unthinkable.
Every study on depression comes to the result that physical exercise is fantastic to combat it but all too often the decisions we make reduce the amount of exercise we get. Teenagers these days zoom past on E-scooters all the time and I often feel like they’re being robbed of what we had with our regular ol’ bikes. Sure it’s harder when you have to pedal and put all the energy in yourself but it also keeps you in a much beter state.
one thing I hate with my cities bikeshare program is to me it enshitified with the addition of e-bikes. At this point the e-bikes are the majority and its harder to find standard compared to when they were the only option. Thing is the standard bikes you can ride for an hour for free and then dock and undock a new one and you only have the relatively low yearly membership. E-bikes though have a cost per min even with a membership.
That does sound like a issue. I wonder though are more people are choosing “standard bikes” because of longer free window as you said, or is it that your bikeshare program is choosing to provide more “electrified bikes” because of increased profits or demand?
Personaly I choose the “electrified bike” (i.e. pedel assist) as its easier for me to get around more comfortably and go further distances with less knee pain and strain, but having both options is a plus.
My area has a docked bike program. In a app I can always see how many bikes are available at a designated dock and how many of those bikes are electric vs manual.
Also, a side note the term “e-bike” has become a “catch all term” for electrified two wheel modes of transportation IMO. Most of this used by the media as a negative generalization or buzzword to group e-motos, and e-mopeds together with electric bicycles. This is mainly related to exploding unregulated batteries which generally are caused by e-mopeds, not electrified bicycles. This is why I generally in conversations try to make a distinction between bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles, when they are electrified.
yeah definately just bikes in this case. there is an app but an app telling you no bikes that don’t have additional charge are available at the closest rack or any rack around you does not really help the issue. Im pretty sure part of it is supply because you can see fewer manual bikes across the whole system. I think when they started doing electric they did it by replacing end of life manual bikes with e-bikes. im kinda concerned that might keep on going till e-bikes are the only option. although honestly I never stopped having a bike and given the situation the dream of not needing to keep one where I live is kinda dead.
Same deal in China, though in most cities, you can leave the bikes nearly anywhere that’s not blocking traffic.
The escooters only cost 15 cents for 20 minutes, but its the spirit of the thing, I used to grab a bicycle just to go 1 block to get to the subway, now its not worth it.
The city guides here tell the same story. The cruise terminal is 200 and change meters/yards from where the historical city tour begins. They have to hire a bus to drive the Americans from the terminal to the spot. If there’s no bus, they stay on the boat. Afterwards they’ll of course say “we could’ve walked that part.”
British citizen that moved back to Canada a few years ago. I’d ask my friends to walk a certain distance and they’re utterly bewildered that I’d walk. I also don’t need to wait 5 minutes for a closer parking spot, I can park where it’s free and walk less than a minute.
I’ve changed them quite a bit and now they’ve gotten into running which is nice.
the only thing I would be worried about is if the bus will stay for long enough. Figure with looking around and experiencing it would be like half an hour. 10 to, 10 there, 10 back.
I was once in Iceland and took a guided tour. The bus stopped at a beautiful waterfall that you can walk behind (no loot). You could see the waterfall from the bus but it was a 10 min walk to get to it. I shit you not, the american couple on the bus decided to stay behind because they didn’t want to walk that far. Now I get that people have medical conditions and all but this seemed mostly like an issue of them being tired because the last two stops already required 10 min walks. It’s not their fault either. They grew up in a system that stole all forms of movement from them and fed them corn syrup so now a 20 min walk is unthinkable.
Every study on depression comes to the result that physical exercise is fantastic to combat it but all too often the decisions we make reduce the amount of exercise we get. Teenagers these days zoom past on E-scooters all the time and I often feel like they’re being robbed of what we had with our regular ol’ bikes. Sure it’s harder when you have to pedal and put all the energy in yourself but it also keeps you in a much beter state.
I hate how many cities here in China got rid of public bikes for public escooters.
one thing I hate with my cities bikeshare program is to me it enshitified with the addition of e-bikes. At this point the e-bikes are the majority and its harder to find standard compared to when they were the only option. Thing is the standard bikes you can ride for an hour for free and then dock and undock a new one and you only have the relatively low yearly membership. E-bikes though have a cost per min even with a membership.
That does sound like a issue. I wonder though are more people are choosing “standard bikes” because of longer free window as you said, or is it that your bikeshare program is choosing to provide more “electrified bikes” because of increased profits or demand?
Personaly I choose the “electrified bike” (i.e. pedel assist) as its easier for me to get around more comfortably and go further distances with less knee pain and strain, but having both options is a plus.
My area has a docked bike program. In a app I can always see how many bikes are available at a designated dock and how many of those bikes are electric vs manual.
Also, a side note the term “e-bike” has become a “catch all term” for electrified two wheel modes of transportation IMO. Most of this used by the media as a negative generalization or buzzword to group e-motos, and e-mopeds together with electric bicycles. This is mainly related to exploding unregulated batteries which generally are caused by e-mopeds, not electrified bicycles. This is why I generally in conversations try to make a distinction between bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles, when they are electrified.
yeah definately just bikes in this case. there is an app but an app telling you no bikes that don’t have additional charge are available at the closest rack or any rack around you does not really help the issue. Im pretty sure part of it is supply because you can see fewer manual bikes across the whole system. I think when they started doing electric they did it by replacing end of life manual bikes with e-bikes. im kinda concerned that might keep on going till e-bikes are the only option. although honestly I never stopped having a bike and given the situation the dream of not needing to keep one where I live is kinda dead.
Same deal in China, though in most cities, you can leave the bikes nearly anywhere that’s not blocking traffic.
The escooters only cost 15 cents for 20 minutes, but its the spirit of the thing, I used to grab a bicycle just to go 1 block to get to the subway, now its not worth it.
The city guides here tell the same story. The cruise terminal is 200 and change meters/yards from where the historical city tour begins. They have to hire a bus to drive the Americans from the terminal to the spot. If there’s no bus, they stay on the boat. Afterwards they’ll of course say “we could’ve walked that part.”
British citizen that moved back to Canada a few years ago. I’d ask my friends to walk a certain distance and they’re utterly bewildered that I’d walk. I also don’t need to wait 5 minutes for a closer parking spot, I can park where it’s free and walk less than a minute.
I’ve changed them quite a bit and now they’ve gotten into running which is nice.
the only thing I would be worried about is if the bus will stay for long enough. Figure with looking around and experiencing it would be like half an hour. 10 to, 10 there, 10 back.