Cycling infrastructure takes commitment - planning, time and money. The current just add "sharing" scooters and e-bikes will fail to make much of a difference without it. It took Denmark and the Netherlands over a generation to find the right path at scale. The good news is many plans and projects have been tried - an example from Delft in 1979. The bad news is inertia.
when car rental and parking are both too cheap
Creative use of rentals and shares.
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The service, with 230,000 registered users, realized around summer 2018 that some people who rented vehicles never actually drove them.
Orix examined its mileage records after it was asked about the issue by a media outlet and found several percent of its rented vehicles “traveled no distance.”
“We have no clear idea how they actually used our vehicles,” said an Orix public relations official. “The only thing we can say is that data show a number of people rent cars without driving them.”
Other car-sharing services also reported vehicles being returned that logged unusually low mileage and conducted customer surveys hoping to solve the mystery.
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