Since the city hired Reed Dunbar, we have lost 30% of our local cyclists. He's in love with implementations that have either been proven to fail because they increase conflicts (two-way cycletracks, which we are putting in and which have been illegal in the Netherlands for years are one example) or implementations that, while the data is sparse, are obviously going to increase conflicts (bike boxes, bike lanes narrowed to stripe in a "buffer").

Now he's in charge of a bike share. While the odds are against success, it is possible to make a bike share work here, but it would have to be headed by someone who is much more willing to listen to, understand and implement the advice of more knowledgeable community members. Mr. Dunbar has proven time and again that his agenda trumps good sense. I predict a miserable failure of bike share here, but lots of lipstick will be used to pretty up this pig.