It’s not just about the helmets.
A lot of people are blaming the helmet law in Seattle for the failure of the bike share system, including Janette Sadik-Kahn, who tweets:
Janette Sadik-Khan @JSadikKhan
NYC has no helmet law, 38 million bike share trips & 0 deaths. Seattle has a helmet law & 1 dead bike share system.
Moral: If you want bike riders to live, build safer streets. If you want bike share to die, require helmets.
And it was silly and awkward and unnecessary to have everyone go through this process with the helmets. But that’s just one of the problems.
