Bike share detractors dining on crow?
To The Editor:
Re “Wheels in Motion, as Citi Bike Rolls Out” (news, May 29):
My wife and I have just had a wonderful day using bike share! What a fantastic way to travel around the city.
How amazing that this reporter was able to find so many ill-informed detractors and worry-warts. I have no doubt that they are already eating crow, seeing the success of the program just in its first days. Everywhere we traveled today we only encountered curious and positive neighbors.
Saying that bike share is not bike share, but bike rental, only underscores how small-minded and unaware these poor souls really are. They need look no further than their own neighborhoods to see that car sharing already exists right here — and how it differs from “car rental.”
And did no one notice that these racks replaced walls of private vehicles emblazoned with Chevy or Cadillac advertising? Oh, I see, those are historic, while bright blue bikes that happen to be partially underwritten by a bank are not?
Ian Dutton
