Originally Posted by
alcjphil
Bixi was never intended to be a bike rental system. It was conceived as a system that would allow people to use a bike for short periods of time to get from place to place....
...and, that was the problem-- in Seattle. When you rent a bike you usually are expected to return it where you got it. In Seattle, all of the "share" bikes ended up at the bottom of the hill-- no one wanted to ride uphill.