Any reasonable person might justifiably wonder WTFark is going on with the city's big-budgeted so-called 'newsroom' occupying space inside City Hall. Are they too pre-occupied and oh-so-bizzy getting their act together to come up with a plausible public relations campaign for next year's fiscal budget fiasco to finesse and underplay the games they play propagandizing another ploy to fool-the-public about more tricky financing schemes for ASU, that they didn't happen to see some International and Chinese VC-financed Bike-Share here on the sidewalks?
Installations right in front of City Hall and around downtown?
Your MesaZona blogger posted about this last month.
It was an unusual rainy day here in the desert in The Valley of The Sun and here in 'The Od Donut-Hole' mid-week on Wednesday February 14th. The streets were empty as usual - even the homeless who usually are the only ones seen enjoying public spaces were seeking scant shelter from the elements. Yours truly stepped-out for a walk, seeing groups of bright yellow and lime green bikes in position on the perimeters of the Mesa Arts Center, calling Casey Blake, the Director of Public Relations, to find out what's happening. Surprisingly, Casey picked up the call herself filling in details she knew about.
Here's a link to what was posted here on this blog: images by Tim Mello on 14 Feb. The opening image shows the bikes parked across Main Street from Mesa City Hall . . . did city officials not make some 'deal' with these companies or didn't know anything?
NO, dear readers, IT'S PREMATURE OVERKILL!
These self-propelled two-wheeled machines, funded by privately-owned Chinese VCs [venture capitalists[
are getting free parking on the public sidewalks - or maybe we should call it "foreign direct investment" in our
hyper-local "Donut-Hole" where we now see more bikes than people who might use them on the streets of
our downtown community where not everyone is affluent enough to own a Smartphone to download the app
on these bikes to pay to rent them
Now seeing a second and third company dumping on public sidewalks here this time dockless bikes that you can find all around to use and drop off any time and anywhere you like - if you use a Smartphone there's an app you can download to rent the bike. What they don't tell you is that you rent at the same a GPS tracker that can track everything you do and collect your data: that's the money-maker to get "big data" - your data - start-ups can capitalize on in the new Sharing Economy to deliver back dollars to initial funding investors
Feb 15, 2018 - Bike-Share War Here in Downtown Mesa??? NO, dear readers, IT'S PREMATURE OVERKILL! These self-propelled two-wheeled machines, funded by privately-owned Chinese VCs [venture capitalists[ are getting free parking on the public sidewalks - or maybe we should call it "foreign direct investment" in ...
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Here on the same day is this report from the East Valley Tribune's contributing writer Wayne Schutsky:
Feb 15, 2018 - The Ofo bike share company officially began operating in Mesa last week while simultaneously dealing with issues previously confronted in Phoenix and Scottsdale over complaints about bikes abandoned on sidewalks and front lawns
Here's the announcement dated March 22, 2018 from MesaNow about what started on February 14, 2018: THIS IS ALL THE CITY'S NEWSROOM HAS TO SAY:
Dockless Bicycles in Mesa
March 22, 2018 at 2:31 pm
"Dockless bike share companies have begun operations in Mesa and have placed bicycles around the city. These bike share companies are privately owned and operated and are not affiliated with the City of Mesa. The companies and their customers are responsible for obeying all state laws and city ordinances when using and parking bikes. If you have a concern about a bike's location, it's best to contact the appropriate company directly. Below is contact information for the companies currently operating in Mesa, or they can also each be contacted through their associated smartphone app:
LimeBike (Green bikes with yellow fenders)support@limebike.com
Call or text: 888-546-3345
Ofo (Yellow bikes)support@ofobike.com
The Mesa City Code states "no person shall park a bicycle upon a street other than upon the roadway against the curb or upon the sidewalk in a rack to support the bicycle or against a building or at the curb in such manner as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic." (Title 10, Chapter 1, Section 14). "
LimeBike (Green bikes with yellow fenders)support@limebike.com
Call or text: 888-546-3345
Ofo (Yellow bikes)support@ofobike.com
The Mesa City Code states "no person shall park a bicycle upon a street other than upon the roadway against the curb or upon the sidewalk in a rack to support the bicycle or against a building or at the curb in such manner as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic." (Title 10, Chapter 1, Section 14). "
Link to source > http://mesanow.org/news/public/article/2065
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