Is the Bike Angel, E-Bike System Unfair
Is the Bike Angel, E-Bike System Unfair - It's not really a question, because it is... unfair If you’ve looked at the MoreBikes NYC stats, you’ll see eBikes dominate usage in New York, which me...
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The trick is to redistribute all the classic bikes at a particular station first. then once they're all removed the e-bikes are of no cost to redistribute. At least that's the way it goes in NYC.
It's the "accepted" solution ONLY in NYC, but not applicable in ORD (and maybe other cities).
Besides, that is a horribly poor solution for everyone.
The problem is we're being charged money to move their ebikes. We're paying Lyft a significant amount of money, and it's diminishing our points earning.
The fact that we're all allowing it to continue, to have these combined huge sums of money taken from our pockets while significantly helping Lyft is something we collectively should be working on changing.
We should all be pushing for some type of compromise on the eBike fees charged to Bike Angels.
This cooperation and unified effort would benefit all the Angels across the system as a whole.
Times have changed, ebikes are the predominant bikes out there now, so this should be a number one priority, because we're working for much less points.
If we don't work together on this across all the cities, nothing will change, nothing except it will get worse has the manual bikes continue to decrease and go out of service for repairs.
If people that have never moved ebikes or scooters before are now moving them because there's not a supply of manual bikes, that is an important change. It cost a lot of money to move these ebikes, the distances aren't always that close.
This is a big deal.
If there are no traditional bikes available, you just need to set your preferences to low-assist and they will not charge you to move the ebikes. But as BananaBlack mentioned. you need to move the classic bikes first. You are right though...they have not really thought this out because bike angels tend to move the classic bikes and when the stations flip after fifteen minutes, one station is left with all the ebikes and the other will primarily have classic bikes...especially if more than one angel is working in the same area.
