Originally Posted by
himespau
I have thought for a while that a lot of the city bike shares would have done better (and there would have been less room for the scooters to slip in and litter our sidewalks), if the bikes had been pedal assist e-bikes. Not throttled things, but that maybe double whatever effort you put in up to a top speed of some sort.
You are correct. When Lime Bike added ebikes in Seattle, use exploded. People were actually hiding them so they could use them later on.