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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's extremely cheap to rent a bike on Capital Bikeshare. In fact, it's cheaper than pretty much any other city's bike sharing program. Those fees don't come anywhere close to covering the program's expenses, even though Capital Bikeshare says its users tend to make six figure incomes. The only reason the program can even function is because taxpayers have contributed tens of millions to dollars to cover the shortfall left by cyclists' artificially low rental fees. Why shouldn't Capital Bikeshare fees be raised by enough to cover its expenses? Other cities' bike sharing programs are self financing. 
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Bowser wants another $14 million next year from taxpayers to cover the hole created by Capital Bikeshare's low fees. If biking is so popular, why is Capital Bikeshare on the dole? [/quote]

The cost of riding the bus went up this year by 12.5 percent
The cost of riding the subway this year when up by 12.5 percent
The cost of parking in a large vicinity around U Street is going up by almost 1000 percent.
Electric cars will be subject to an excise tax of up to 10 percent 
A city surcharge on gas is going up 4 percent.

The annual membership cost of Capital Bikeshare hasn't increased in more than three years.  [/quote]

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