Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Taking a bike

The “sharing” economy is truly permeating the People’s Republic. As witnessed by this bike-share installation I found on last Friday’s walk:

It’s across the street from a small park (tennis courts, picnic tables and baseball diamond; also a drinking fountain that I really need by the time I hit that point in my circuit), on a street otherwise relentlessly residential. No shops, no businesses, just single family houses, townhomes and one multi-occupancy building of half-million-dollar condos.

Also—it was decidedly not there on the Thursday, so it was installed in a single day. That must have been a thing.

I saw on Monday that word has got out, as the configuration of available bikes had changed:


 

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