elcorrerador
Active Member
Lime and Bird are already in Mississauga and Brampton. I don't see why Bikeshare cannot expand there as well.
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Toronto Bike Share
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turbanplanner
Senior Member
Bike share operates at a loss, so they'd have to subsidize it. I think that's why the Ok'd lime/bird because it meant the city got a boost for free.
Aside from some trails there aren't really any good biking routes I'm familiar with. Also I don't think either are comparable, giant swaths of Mississauga are closed off. (most of Dixie is a no ride zone even though they have a separated bike trail)
The system is incredibly labor intensive, you'd have to find a fair way to bill for a bike that moves from 1 city to another when picked up by a truck.
afransen
Senior Member
I don't think repositioning between cities will be a big deal as I see no reason to believe bikes would flow in an unbalanced way between Mississauga and Toronto, for instance. I think most of the rebalancing is 'uphill' as people are more inclined to take an acoustic bike downhill vs uphill. If the pool is shared, there is no reason a specific bike needs to be moved from the west end of Mississauga to Scarborough, for instance. And a big part of the cost is I imagine the loading and unloading, not so much the driving between stations.
Most of Mississauga has pretty good off-street trailers (though somewhat circuitous) and good multiuse paths along arterials.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I noticed that the stations around Humber Bay are often full pretty early into the evening rush-hour, if they do expand, hopefully they’ll put enough stations around the border so that it’s not an issue.
Also, I realized I never posted a map of the bird no ride zones. It feels weird even streets with a multiuse trail are a no go zone!
LNahid2000
Senior Member
I just put my physical card back in my wallet. Tired of using their downgraded app that doesn't generate 5 digit codes. Annoying to have to carry an extra card, but less annoying than to get my phone to scan their QR codes, if they're not scratched off.
Northern Light
Superstar
Bikeshare update:
+5 stations since my last update, bring us to 841 stations across the City.
near downtown, Bathurst + Lakeshore has been added.
The rest are up in North York, one on the west side, at Finch and Wilmington:
The rest on the east side with these 2 north of the 401:
Sheppard/Hawkesbury (Bayview Village Mall)
And Sheppard/Leslie:
Finally, these 2 south of 401, serving the office park/light industrial area of Duncan Woods:
And:
+5 stations since my last update, bring us to 841 stations across the City.
near downtown, Bathurst + Lakeshore has been added.
The rest are up in North York, one on the west side, at Finch and Wilmington:
The rest on the east side with these 2 north of the 401:
Sheppard/Hawkesbury (Bayview Village Mall)
And Sheppard/Leslie:
Finally, these 2 south of 401, serving the office park/light industrial area of Duncan Woods:
And:
generalcanada
Senior Member
checked the lakeshore/bathurst one. Its just moved from fleet street. not a new station
WillTo
Senior Member
You can use the mobile website to generate a 5 digit code if it is scratched off.
LNahid2000
Senior Member
I attempted that to get home from Union just now but the website was so laggy that I gave up. The card released my bike in 2 seconds.
Allandale25
Senior Member
Towered
Superstar
I think it's time I signed up for this. The other day I had to take an Uber from work at University and Dundas to pick up my son from school in the Lansdowne and College area, and had to endure murder-inducing gridlock at 3 pm, and got to shell out 31 bucks for the privilege. Disgusting. While I was sitting in the stationary car I couldn't help but curse myself for not just hopping on a Bikeshare to bypass all the cars, for a much cheaper price.
Northern Light
Superstar
Notable here is the growth adjusted for the number of stations, we're now about 80 stations higher than year-end 2023, though for statistical comparison, you would weight that down to maybe 40.
So growth of 5-11% in the number of stations, depending on how you weight, but growth of 22% (adjusted to date) over the previous year.
I think this makes an excellent case for the accretive benefit of reaching more origins/destinations and densifying lighter parts of the network.
I think the numbers are also below potential based on the number of areas that completely run out of bikes each weekday morning.
This suggest there is already present demand with instant growth available with more docks/bikes.
Northern Light
Superstar
I'm going to start a semi-regular series here of posting areas that are largely out of Bikeshare Bikes at the end of AM Peak each day.
My purpose is to encourage those of you living in said areas to email Bikeshare and ask for some combination of more docks, and/or extended docks w/more bikes to meet demand, and to make that easy for you by providing the evidence.
Herewith, post one, look at the north-west core:
Currently served by 9 stations, 5 have zero bikes at the end of AM Peak, 3 others have only 1 bike left. I can see clear coverage gaps on Davenport, Lansdowne and Dufferin, while Keele looks better, it clearly needs more docks.
My purpose is to encourage those of you living in said areas to email Bikeshare and ask for some combination of more docks, and/or extended docks w/more bikes to meet demand, and to make that easy for you by providing the evidence.
Herewith, post one, look at the north-west core:
Currently served by 9 stations, 5 have zero bikes at the end of AM Peak, 3 others have only 1 bike left. I can see clear coverage gaps on Davenport, Lansdowne and Dufferin, while Keele looks better, it clearly needs more docks.
vic
Senior Member
Yup, your first map zeroes right in on my experience. 
It's not unusual to find Symington-Davenport out of bikes, even well before the AM peak (e.g. 7:30am). I end up going down to Dupont and Symington, though that one also gets emptied out frequently (map shows just 1 bike now).
Oddly enough, I used to have the opposite experience: I'd get home and have to park further away because the Davenport-Symington dock was full.
It's not unusual to find Symington-Davenport out of bikes, even well before the AM peak (e.g. 7:30am). I end up going down to Dupont and Symington, though that one also gets emptied out frequently (map shows just 1 bike now).Oddly enough, I used to have the opposite experience: I'd get home and have to park further away because the Davenport-Symington dock was full.
Northern Light
Superstar
Yup, your first map zeroes right in on my experience.
Did a quick survey using Streetview to ascertain any easy locations to add docks/capacity.
A lot of narrow sidewalks in this area......but.
I it appears to me that there is space in the Wiltshire ROW south off Davenport, east side for a station; that there is room to expand the station at the south side of Earlscourt Park by several docks.
I also see room on the St. Clarens ROW, east side, south of Davenport; and on Foundry at Davenport Village Park.