Recent comments in /f/newhaven

Observant_Neighbor t1_j7pokgh wrote

bike new haven was a massive failure. Putting aside the political meddling in station locations (where bike new haven predicted no use), the entire thing was paid by advertising adjacent to the bike stations. The ads were terrible. After a short period of use, the bikes were pulled for relaunch to a new system to allow for rental without a smart phone or credit card. The new system never debuted.

I live and work in New Haven. My office is downtown. I'm here all the time. During the entire tenure of bike new haven, I used them twice. I only saw someone else use the bikes 2 or 3 times over the time period. Many were taken and left elsewhere in New Haven for later pick up.

A few things contributed to the failure. Yale has their own bike share. Many bike focused folks already have and use their own bikes. The balance of the city's residents did not appear to be disposed to use the bikes, even if free. Until it is too costly to drive, folks won't bike. Many will suffer on the bus before biking.

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BLACVE OP t1_j7pih24 wrote

Hahahaha, we tried to keep it in the box as little as possible. I'm almost positive that we got there just as they put the box on the rack so it couldn't have sat in the box for too long, and we were parked right outside the pickup door. We'll be going to Pepe's next week and they handed that pie to us right after they took it out of the oven, so it is only in the box from the pickup counter to the car. But I feel you on that. We'll venture out of the car for reviews soon enough but those disastrous vehicles we do the reviews in are almost as much a part of the show as Vito and I are

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BLACVE OP t1_j7phsqr wrote

Lol well we started doing just fast food reviews because we thought it would get the most engagement and interaction. Some of the videos have done ok, but we figured we should start branching away from some of the junk that is fast food. We will still probably review big releases and whatnot, but at least as of right now, the back catalog is all fast food

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