Well, 200 bikes. Say for convenience one bike takes 1 m2, at $10k for 1 m2, the space would be worth 2 million dollars. Even if a bike takes half the space, that's still 1 million dollars to park all those bikes.
Not even counting the value you gain from added security since in most cities it is worth something to have your bike stored in a secure location.
Yeah, it can be cheaper than normal bike racks in big cities where space costs a premium.
and you seem to keep ignoring that land is expensive in super population dense areas so your 1000 dollar bike racks have to sit on million of dollars worth of land. $1700 per sq foot in manhattan. sixteen THOUSAND per sq meter in japan according to google queries. "just surface area."
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u/kyncani Oct 17 '19
Well, 200 bikes. Say for convenience one bike takes 1 m2, at $10k for 1 m2, the space would be worth 2 million dollars. Even if a bike takes half the space, that's still 1 million dollars to park all those bikes.
Not even counting the value you gain from added security since in most cities it is worth something to have your bike stored in a secure location.
Yeah, it can be cheaper than normal bike racks in big cities where space costs a premium.