Originally Posted by
tjspiel
if people up front are worried that the helmet requirement will cause GMs bike share to fail, then take steps to document that it was in fact that the helmet requirement that killed it.
The real world doesn't work like that though. If this project fails then it will be billed as a failure of bikeshare on corporate campuses and it will be brought up by naysayers every time someone wants to do something remotely similar elsewhere. The naysayers though will also mold it to fit their need; "It failed because it's in too cold of weather so we can do it here in Illinois either", "because it's too hot in the summer so we can't do it here in Atlanta", "because people don't want to fiddle with bikes during the workday", ...
A success of this project makes getting similar projects off the ground elsewhere an uphill climb, a failure makes them a mountain climb regardless of why it failed and how well documented that is.