Overcast grey Seattle weather had me contemplating a bike-share this a.m. but yesterday’s experience with JUMP! ‘s newer bright red bikes in the area made me think again after multiple phone scans yesterday and the bike failing to unlock. #Frustration!
To be clear, LimeBike doesn’t have these issues in my experience but the overcast weather turned to a light drizzle and I remembered Lime has recently introduced their newer car-share “LimePod” using Fiat 500’s. I easily located one nearby in the LimeBike app, had to play with locating it via audible horn honks and after scanning my license, doors unlocked and I was off! Oh what fun!… The Fiat 500 is a tiny car but oh so nimble. It even has a sunroof, a cell phone holder and charging cables! Not to mention these Fiats are so tiny that you can shoehorn yourself into virtually any parallel parking spot. I literally parked and locked the car with a grin on my face… admittedly, costs for these cars are 2.67x the cost of the e-Bikes and 21 mins of driving amounted to $9.80*.
*My intent is to document all alternative transportation costs here to compare to traditional owning/leasing a vehicle.
Car-less in Seattle 