Gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/nyregion/citi-bike-scam-n...
Washington, DC has a similar program [1]. I believe Capital Bikeshare is also maintained by Lyft in some way. I wonder if this one is harder to abuse or if it's just that NYC has a larger pop than DC so there is a larger pool of bikes to collect?
This feels really scummy in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sense.
A system put in place to incentivise helping people, abused by a few to inconvenience customers for pocket change.
It's not really fair to say $6k a month is pocket change. I agree with one of the quotes that if they want some different behavior, they should incentivise something different.
Old stuff, bike renting companies were proposing that in Brussels years ago, before doing that will their own employees. I guess the scheme has been abused.