Vancouver’s Bixi public bike share program may sound like good public policy but, in the end, it will be taxpayers who will get taken for a ride.It seems like a no-brainer in a city with three thriving car share companies and a massive taxpayer investment in new bike lanes that a bicycle share program would be a huge success. But still city hall has offered to subsidize this Bixi system because no entrepreneur, knowing Vancouver’s helmet laws, Bixi’s dodgy software issues and Montreal’s multi-million dollar bike share bailout, would take a risk on funding the project themselves.
