I located an excellent article about why Lyft is a poor choice to run bikeshares in the United States.  I used it to update the main petition but for interested people it's a excellent read.

Why Lyft Is Running From Bicycles
And why America’s bike-share systems might be in big trouble.

 The article clearly lays out that for Lyft bikeshare is just an entry into it's rideshare service,

"In May, on his first earnings call as Lyft CEO, Risher laid out his business thesis.

 “We’re effectively a pure play on ride share,” he said. “So, that’s important for us to execute on as well.” A pure play on ride hail means no room for distractions. Last year, Lyft wound down a short-lived consumer car-rentals business. Bikes and scooters, Risher indicated, could be next on the chopping block:

E-bikes are a big deal. When people ride e-bikes they like them a lot. But for us, I think we haven’t done the job we need to do to make sure that every time a person rides the bike, they get welcomed into the Lyft ecosystem, and frankly, welcome into the ride share side of things.

This was saying the quiet part out loud: that Lyft no longer views bikes and scooters as a clean, green complement to its main service, but as another entry point into the pure-play business of ride hail. Owning Citi Bike and those other beloved bike-share systems isn’t about enriching urban transport or closing the last-mile gap with more sustainable modes; it’s an elaborate marketing campaign to install the Lyft app onto more phones and get more passengers into its cars. Per Risher’s assessment, it’s not paying off....

Warning lights were flashing even before the sale sign went up. In March, Lyft shut down Minneapolis’s Nice Ride after failing to find a new sponsor for the program. (For now, e-bikes and scooters from Lime, Spin, and Veo have taken its place.) In other cities, Lyft has hiked prices to cover operating costs, leaving many riders disgruntled or priced out. Anecdotally, Citi Bike users complain the e-bikes are often dead or broken, while others say the Citi Bike app itself has become harder to use, in what they suspect is an effort to push more people onto the main Lyft system. "

Unless city governments reclaim Capital Bikeshare, this is very likely where we will end up-high prices and persistent e-bike shortages.