why not just buy a bike?
Bikes are pretty cheap, especially second hand, so why not just buy a rugged, urban- designed bike to get you there and back. What if you can't get a share bike when you have to get home? If a share bike gets vandalized after you used it, who gets charged? In NY kids will wreck anything they can't steal, like shopping carts for example. Nice idea but it relies too much on honesty and consideration to work in the real world.