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Prediction Held up
Savage: LimeBike envisions expanding into small electric vehicles and cars
“We need to do bikes and bike sharing really well to then be able to offer a suite of mobility options in the urban environment or in cities. So we could envision a future where we're rolling out very small vehicles or electric cars, for example, that might not…”
Assertion Supported
Savage: Dallas has more bikes than any other U.S. city
“Dallas now has more bikes in its city than any other U.S. City, period, including New York City that is more than 10 times larger.”
Assertion Supported
Savage: Increasing bike volume on city streets reduces cycling crashes
“What's been demonstrated around the world is that as more bikes are on the street, actually safety goes up, so you'll have fewer incidences of Crashes or conflicts with cars, etc.”
Disclosure
Savage: LimeBike's Seattle launch reached areas unserved by docked systems
“We had an example where we started serving the city of Seattle. They had an old program called Pronto, which is a dock-based system with 500 bikes, and within the first few days of operating, 20 to 30% of our bikes were in parts of the city that previously had…”
Opinion
Savage: Bike sharing cannot work without public mass transit investment
“Bike sharing simply wouldn't work without the public investment in mass transit as well, right? I mean, it's sort of a two-way street. They sort of work together, right?”
Disclosure
Savage: Over 40% of LimeBike rides connect directly to mass transit
“Our data actually is showing that over 40% of our rides start or stop near a bus or train stop, and so that tells us that we're able to be solving some of those solutions, and I think, in fact, in Dallas, 51% of our rides happen during the evening commute.”