Due to mismanagement, Bikeshare is unusable — a total waste of everybody’s money. It makes no sense to have so many bikes in the system and no place to return them. This morning I took a 10 minute trip into Foggy Bottom and then peddled from station to station for half an hour. Every time I got to a station that reported open spots it was completely full when I got there. I finally found a station with a single open spot far, far away at DuPont Circle. I then had to take a cab to my destination and arrived for a meeting an hour late and $8 poorer. This is crazy! I would have been better off walking instead of wasting my time with Bikeshare.
It is not rocket science to know where stations will be full. It is very predictable and will be the same day after day. There is no evidence that anybody at Bikeshare is making any real effort to keep the system in balance. If someone from Bikeshare had been at just one of the many stations around Foggy Bottom to collect bikes all the other full stations could be directing riders there and the system would work. Instead, nothing was being done. Bikeshare is a useless fraud.
