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A new Bike Share e-bike costs maybe ~$2,600 plus shipping. A new Bike Share mechanical bike costs maybe ~$1,100 plus shipping. (PDF source.) HST might be extra. (PDF source.) The last person to have used the bike have mistakenly not docked it correctly. After the bike went missing from the...

If the New York City system would lower the per-minute e-bike surcharge somewhat, then a few delivery people might use Citi Bike e-bikes all day and pay the surcharge. The system could then take the extra revenue and use it to buy more e-bikes. This might provide a virtuous circle of benefit...

I highly doubt any such policy will be built into the software. In fact, I'm unaware of any bike-share system, anywhere in the world, which has such a policy built into their software. The easiest way to avoid paying the e-bike rate is to walk to another station, in order to find a mechanical...

It might not be a yearly surcharge. Maybe they'll charge a small per-minute e-bike surcharge, like they do in New York City. But then again, in Paris, France, it's a fixed surcharge. If you want e-bike access, this causes the price of your yearly membership to more than double. (Source.)...

A new Bike Share Toronto thread, over at RedFlagDeals.com I've just started a brand-new Bike Share Toronto thread in one of the RedFlagDeals.com discussion forums. The first post includes some general information about the system. Among other things, it explains how to return a bike without...

Bike Share Toronto encourages all members of the public to fill that survey in. You can view the entire survey via this link. Regarding your screenshot: Yes, they'll indeed probably eventually start charging extra money for e-bikes. I'm not aware of any other bike-share system in the world...

Yes! I think that increasing the courier fees just the right amount might be the perfect solution. Instead of driving cars or buying their own e-bikes, some couriers will continue to use Bike Share. Perhaps the fees could be used to buy more e-bikes, creating a virtuous circle in which the...

Let me offer my late replies to some posts from way back in this past March. Sometimes they lock them. The user agreement doesn't forbid commercial use. However, system staff don't allow members to lock any Bike Share bike to a post-and-ring stand or other common object. If you photograph...

This article seems to suggest as follows: If you're moving an upright piano, and if you really can't afford piano movers, it might be practical to enlist a team of four or more friends to do the moving instead. You'll need to have certain moving supplies on hand, and you'll also need to do a...

I did some Google searching. Premium memberships which are still available: Vancouver's docked "Mobi" system has a standard plan which includes 30-minute trips, and a premium plan which includes 60-minute trips. The premium plan costs 23% more. BikeData Vancouver suggests: Their standard plan...

There are multiple datasets. You'd need the ridership data set. You can get it from CKAN or from the Open Data Portal. Lots of people have written already written code which can parse the dataset, and can clean the data up somewhat, and can analyze it in certain ways. You can find some of this...

In transportation research, "trip chaining" is combining multiple errands into one longer journey, whether by car, public transit, or any other mode of transportation. But, in bike-sharing research, "trip chaining" often means docking and then immediately undocking the same bike, to avoid...

Back when Alta Bicycle Share ran Bike Share Toronto, the city offered monthly memberships. Nowadays, Alta Bicycle Share is named Motivate, a subsidiary of Lyft. Also nowadays, Bike Share Toronto is run by PBSC. If I remember correctly, Motivate still offers monthly memberships in all its...

You made a lot of good points. But let me quibble with one. I'm not sure I want to pay an annual membership fee which is 20–30% higher. Bike Share is competing with personal bike ownership. If membership costs go up enough, some members will stop renewing their memberships. They'll buy their...

Perhaps every new station has to be manually added to the map. Maybe the new station at Danforth and Langford/Jones is installed, but not yet working, and that's why they haven't added it to the map. Or maybe not. I dunno. The new station doesn't show up at the unofficial...

Please see this PDF, which explains why a 45-minute trip limit would necessitate an increase in membership prices. It does contain some misleading text ("98.5% of Bike Share Toronto's annual member's rides are below 30 minutes"), but it mostly contains useful information. Here are my own...

It seems, from what I've read, that 45-minute trip limits for all members would push overage revenues down and therefore push membership prices up. Significantly. Similar to what I said two months ago: Perhaps the best solution would be to sell "regular" yearly memberships with a 30-minute...

The point of asking you to stop by a station every 29 minutes is to make sure that you actually still need the bike. If people could just tap a "Renew" button on their phone every 29 minutes, they could bike from Yonge and Eglinton to Cedarvale Park, and then they could keep a bike for hours...

I almost always reuse the exact same bike I was using. It works. It's quicker, and it may be safer during the pandemic. I think there might be a time-delay rule — you might have to wait 5 or 10 seconds between docking and requesting an unlock — but you can definitely dock and unlock the exact...

I agree that the 30 minute limit is an annoyance. Especially in the winter, when I'm wearing thick mittens. This might decrease bike availability on busy days. It would also reduce overage revenue, which helps to pay for rebalancing and whatnot. On the other hand, it might help to increase...