In November 2014 Mayor Mike Rawlings braved a breath-catching chill and the self-defeating inadequacy of the notion that two isolated docking stations could constitute a functioning system and enthusiastically kicked off a bike-sharing program at Fair Park. Rawlings gleefully hopped on one of the $8,000 bikes (the city paid $125,000 for 16 bicycles plus docking stations) and pedaled off toward the Esplanade, predicting when he stopped that bike-share would be a fabulous and well-used amenity at Fair Park.

So has Fair Park bike-share been a success? It was hard to know at first given that Friends of Fair Park, the nonprofit the Dallas City Council is having run the program, wouldn't release data in response to an open records request; Attorney General Ken Paxton's office affirmed its refusal two weeks ago in opinion that ignored FOFP's long and incestuous relationship with City Hall. No matter. We obtained bike-checkout data late last week through other means.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings inaugurates Fair Park's bike sharing program in November 2014. Eric Nicholson