[mattpratt]

> “Overnight, they just came and set this up. They had no respect for this community.”

A common narrative amongst opponents of the program is the lack of community outreach. Not mentioned in the article is that Motivate, the company that runs the bike share program, reached out to communities and collected feedback for 2+ years before rolling the program out.

Outreach report from February: https://s3.amazonaws.com/babs-www-assets/FordGoBikeInterim+O...

[mrgordon]

Yeah its amazing the opponents can just lie and say it happened overnight. I knew where the stations were going for a LONG time and there were over 30 community meetings.

Meanwhile the critics say they "will not negotiate" with the bike share program. Never a good sign.