for all the hoopla Bike-share gets, that's really not all that much ridership. Like 3% of the TTC's daily ridership.
That's true; but.....its worth noting that Bikeshare only has 9,000 bikes, so they averaged 3.3 rides for every single bike they have in one day. That's the sort of number that could justify more bikes.
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For comparison, Citi Bike's numbers in NYC, showed their all time monthly record was last August at just over 4,000,000 rides that month. Which is about 130,000 per day.
That's across 26,000 bikes, and 1,915 docking stations, which compares with 805 in Toronto as of a few minutes ago.
This suggests we can probably achieve a maximum of around 5 rides per bike, current expansion plans + developer funding should get us to about 1,100 docks and 11,000 bikes by summer '26.
That would see ridership at 55,000 per day (on a peak day). If we can ramp up expansion and achieve anything close to current cycle infra plans, by 2027, we could be peaking closer to 9% of TTC ridership which I think would be a stunning achievement.