Originally posted by Oxymoron
I've seen the yellow bike programs before, but I think this one might be different because one would check out the bike, library book style, for two days. I would never use though, even if I needed a bike, because I never need one for only two days, and if I have to take the bus to get it, I might as well take the bus where I need to go anyways.
I used this service once: I checked out a standard 3 gear bike that I could keep for 2 or 3 days. Like you say, it didn’t make sense.
But like Little Big Man, I liked the heart of these folks at first. So cute, and no-one would use the three bikes that waited outside the information office of my part of Stockholm. But then I got irritated as I realized that this is what little efforts are made to encourage people to use the bike as city communication. Such an alibi.