world bike sharing map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=104227318304000014160.00043d80f9456b3416ced&source=embed&ll=36.949892,-94.130859&spn=52.9,79.013672&z=4
<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=104227318304000014160.00043d80f9456b3416ced&source=embed&ll=36.949892,-94.130859&spn=52.9,79.013672&z=4>Montreal has Bixis. They're great. --- Robert F. Nagel [email protected] www.nagel-law.com Thirty on the Square, 10th Floor 30 W. Mifflin St., Suite 1001 Madison, WI 53703 608-255-1501 office 608-255-1504 fax 608-438-9501 cell On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand why redistribution is necessary in London. In > the morning, you'll need a lot of bikes at transportation centers, so > commuters can ride them to work, and in the evening, you'll need a lot of > bikes at transportation centers, so commuters can ride them back. But > that's where the bikes will naturally be, if they're not redistributed. You > would have to have a lot of extra kiosk slots to handle the surges back and > forth, and that extra capacity would cost some money, but that doesn't sound > like a really major problem. > > Whatever London's experience might be, I'm not sure how it would apply to > Madison. We don't have transportation hubs, at least downtown, and I > wouldn't expect the bikes to be used heavily for commuting. If the system > works well, I'd expect it to be used mostly for short trips throughout the > day -- shopping, lunch, errands, campus trips from one class to another, > etc. -- and these would redistribute the bikes naturally, without much > intervention by management. > > I would expect usage patterns in cities our size to be different from > larger cities like London or Paris. Does anybody know how B-Cycle has been > working out in Boulder? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Rose" <[email protected]> > To: "Kevin Luecke" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:04:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Bikies] City investing in Rental bikes > > On 01/25/2011 09:37 AM, Kevin Luecke wrote: > > > * The GPS units and the calorie counting is a bit gimmicky for the > > end-user, but is an integral part of the system for other reasons. > > The system software can track where bikes are and how full the > > various stations are based on the GPS readings. This allows users > > to pull up a webpage or app before they go grab a bike to make > > sure there are bikes at the station they are headed too. This also > > allows staff to redistribute bikes as needed. > > Redistributing the bikes seems like a potentially costly part of the > program. I've read that in London, the bikes are used by a lot of daily > commuters, which causes them to pulse out in the morning from > transportation centers to employment centers and back again at night. > That leads to two negative effects: it can be very difficult for a > renter to find a free slot in a rack close to one of those > transportation centers at certain times of the day, and it has led to a > greater-than-expected need to redistribute the bicycles, which, if my > understanding is correct, is performed in the case of London by city > staff driving lorries. In the case of Madison-- who will be responsible > for redistributing bicycles? Is there an alligator in that moat? > > Having said all that, I really like the sound of this program, > particularly for certain use cases. I regret that the well-intentioned > provincial legislature here has screwed the pooch for a similar program > in the lower mainland by passing a mandatory helmet law. > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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