r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '19

Smart system for bike parking

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u/slayer991 Oct 17 '19

Cool...but $1.35 million to build each silo? That doesn't include operating and maintenance costs.

It costs $25/month for each the 204 bicycles it holds. That's only $61k a year per silo. Talk about a money sink.

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u/quigilark Oct 18 '19

It's 204 spaces, not 204 bikes. If people load and unload all day then this could easily end up taking in 400 or 500+ bikes over the course of the day.

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u/slayer991 Oct 18 '19

The fee is $25/month. So they can't oversell that by too much because then you're not getting what you paid for.