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> Makes me think transit as we know it wouldn't even work if everyone got one of these things or an ebike and took up so much extra space as a result.

I’ve been wondered something like this too when I see people bring their scooters into a restaurant, the gym or other indoor spaces. I get that you don’t want it stolen but it would untenable if everyone did it.

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Take a portion of the space set aside for car parking, perhaps? (God forbid.)

That doesn’t solve the theft problem.

depends on what you replace the space with. Bike lockers exist and are awesome.

My theory is the number of people in a city willing to commit bike theft is finite, and more bikes in public isn't going to draw out very many more thieves out of the woodwork since bikes are already easy to quickly find to steal in public. That means if the world changes and you get everyone biking, rate of bike theft drops down low enough where its something most people don't think of, like how grand theft auto is an extremely rare occurrence despite there being plenty of expensive cars parked on the street.

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