Just imagine a sliding-doors American bikeshare landscape where Lyft didn't break up Motivate, and Uber didn't gut and dump Jump.
The Lyft/Motivate/ex-PBSC platform will live on, regardless of whatever Lyft does. But what a short-term shitshow it could be for DC, Boston, and NYC.
Fuck the TNCs.
@DemonHusky Nonprofit operating system would be incredible, and would open up so much flexibility in choosing operations companies.
Transit integration depends on transit payment systems talking to literally anything else, and are often provided by a single devoted walled-garden vendor
@bikepedantic If there was a large non-profit bikeshare operator that created a standard payment interface and cities started asking for the ability to link, you might get some of the transit payment vendors to at least talk to the bikeshare people. Maybe I'm being too hopeful here though