Toronto Bike Share

[innsertnamehere]

Also,

The GTA could be getting yet another bike share system. Burlington council recently voted to investigate the feasibility of a system:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1101574668237058048

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Why doesn't Burlington just piggy-back off of Hamilton's SOBI system?

I don't think it would be a concern that bikes would end up in one city or another. They would be independent enough clusters to be self-sustaining.

 

[innsertnamehere]

They very well may do that. The tweet I quoted simply is council requesting staff to prepare a report on costs and options. It may well be that they decide to contract it out to SOBI.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Statistics from Bike Share. They share ridership numbers in their newsletters. Image grabbed from reddit.

 

[innsertnamehere]

February 2019 ridership was 40,000 - so lower than last year. I imagine it has a lot to do with the frigid weather we've had the last 6 weeks or so.

 

[LNahid2000]

last year. I imagine it has a lot to do with the frigid weather we've had the last 6 weeks

Probably because we had a bunch of abnormally warm days in Feb 2018. Feb 28 2018 had a high of 16 degrees.

 

[Northern Light]

The rollout of new stations has begun.

High Park Station - Grenadier Café

Logan + Gerrard

Soho + Queen W

 

[innsertnamehere]

The rollout of new stations has begun.

High Park Station - Grenadier Café

Logan + Gerrard

Soho + Queen W

Exciting stuff. The 105 new stations this year is going to make a huge difference on network coverage - I'm excited to see where they end up.

 

[Avenue]

Logan + Gerard way way wayyyy overdue.

 

[Northern Light]

And..........another station just went online.............

High Park Station - West Rd

This is High Park, just south of Bloor.

 

[innsertnamehere]

@interchange42 @ShonTron

Can we get this thread name changed? this hasn't been BIXI in a long time.. "Toronto Bike Share" is probably a fine title.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

With the addition of those 4 stations, according to here, we are sitting at 360 stations.

 

[innsertnamehere]

April saw a ridership of 145,156, up 67% over last April. Mind you, this was a much warmer April than last April.. Lets see how the May numbers fare given this month seems like its going to be much colder than last May.

 

[ADRM]

April saw a ridership of 145,156, up 67% over last april. Mind you, this was a much warmer april than last april.. Lets see how the May numbers fare given this month seems like its going to be much colder than last May.

Interesting -- funny you say that about the April YoY comparison; warmer, yes, but wetter, no?

All things being equal, when I think about biking to work, the temperature doesn't really affect my decision-making, but the wetness certainly does. Maybe the calculus is different for others (or maybe I'm just wrong in thinking that this April was wetter than last).

 

[innsertnamehere]

Interesting -- funny you say that about the April YoY comparison; warmer, yes, but wetter, no?

All things being equal, when I think about biking to work, the temperature doesn't really affect my decision-making, but the wetness certainly does. Maybe the calculus is different for others (or maybe I'm just wrong in thinking that this April was wetter than last).

I personally only consider weather when it's below 2 or 3 degrees.. otherwise it's just if it's raining or not, but I know a lot of people quit biking as soon as you need gloves to do it.

You can see that behavior in the bikeshare ridership chart on the last page - the 5 highest months are the ones with 20+ degree weather consistently, , and it dropping off significantly after that.