I can’t believe that governments are allowing and even encouraging use of these for transportation, without regard to local communities and the damages they suffer. Problems include:

• parking in inappropriate places
• parking for free with no regard for other people’s use of the public domain
• blocking pedestrian right-of-way
• terrorizing pedestrians on the sidewalk
• leaving them in yards where they are an unsightly mess
• abandoning them to collect dust and spider webs
• they routinely get vandalized and stolen
• lazy people use them for ridiculously short trips
• there are far, far more of them than can be justified by the number of users
• the environmental impacts of production and end-of-life cycle are being ignored
• huge corporations with deep pockets, particularly from the Far East, are largely responsible for this mess
• they are completely out of reach for many low-income people
• a clear sign of rich people invading historic neighborhoods – gentrification!

No, no bike share, cars!

Yes, snark. These are all criticisms that that being routinely made of bike share systems, with no apparent sense of irony.