The bikesharing thread
Exactly a year ago today, I posted a list of the largest US bikesharing systems. I like the idea of an annual report, so here is the current list. Over the past year, both the total number of cities with bikesharing and the total number of bikesharing stations in the US have more than doubled.
The list is in order of the number of stations in each system, which is much easier information to obtain than number of bikes. For an approximate idea about how many bikes are in each city, multiply the number of stations by 10. Also, it goes without saying that there will be more expansions in 2012, both to the existing systems and in new cities. Foremost among them: New York is expected to drop a 600-station behemoth next summer.
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2012 is gonna be huge for bike sharing expansion in the US. |
Where do you get 300 for Chicago? The TIGER grant will only cover 80. You'd need about $15 million to get to 300 stations. As far as I know (and I could be wrong), the only money Chicago has so far is the $4 million from TIGER.
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Looking... Update #1: Here is the list of grant awards for that program. $18 million for bikesharing *is* on the list. However, it is a 5 year list, meaning $18 million is the total allocated over a 5 year period. It doesn't say whether all the money is up front, or spread out over several years. I will keep looking. Update #2: The $18 million is over three years. No word on how much of it is in the first year. I'm tired of looking and am going to stop. |
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Cool list. It's awesome to see such a quick expansion of this mode.
Denver will be adding 35 stations in 2012 - a 67% increase. |
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Now we know they have $22 million, spread over three years. That's $18m in CMAQ plus $4m in TIGER. Each bikesharing station costs between $40,000 and $50,000 to manufacture and install (including the bikes), so actually $22 million is just about right for 500 stations. But to get 300 this year it means that $13-14 million of the money has to be available now. If we assume the $4 million from TIGER is available right away, that means they need at least $9 million from CMAQ in the first year. In other words, it means their 3-year CMAQ allocation has to be front-loaded to provide half the money in the first year. That's certainly possible. It's all I'm trying to figure out. But in any event, nobody knew any of that in September. I'm not trying to be a spoilsport, by the way. I really hope Chicago does launch with 300. The more you have, the better it works. It's just that I happen to know a lot about how bikesharing funding works, and 300 by summer seems optimistic. Optimistic, but possible. Before I had any details about the CMAQ money, it sounded absurd. |
Cirrus,
Why not start a bikeshare list ranked by ridership? I've got Denver's numbers: 2010: 102,961 2011: 202,731 (96.9% increase) |
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even if the the CMAQ money is evenly distributed over the 3 years, that would still mean 6 million would be available right now, and if the 4 million from TIGER is available right now too, that's still an opening system of ~200 stations, which i would hope is still big enough to make a successful go of it. 200 stations would still be larger than any other current system in the nation, so certainly nothing to sneeze at. and most importantly, chicago appears to have the funding lined up for their eventual build-out of 500 stations and 5,000 bikes. whether they only get 200 of them open by this summer, or all 300 they initially wanted, it probably won't make or break the deal overall. does NYC have 100% of the funding in place for their 600 station system set to open this summer? |
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For the last 12 months, Washington is at 1,088,145 rides. According to the CaBi Dashboard. |
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Now, we should do trips per # of stations/bikes. Something like that. Code:
City Trips Stations Trips/Station |
Fun. Let's go even further.
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City Trips Stations Trips/Station Days Open Trips/Station/Day |
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It takes 3-4 months for Bixi to manufacture bikes and stations, ship them, and then get them installed. So if New York doesn't announce its sponsor in January it may have a hard time meeting that April goal for roll-out. Unless they decide to fork over public funding, which they could still do (and which the city of NY is almost certainly capable of doing on its own, if they must). |
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Bike sharing is coming to San Francisco
A regional pilot program led by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) in partnership with the SFMTA will bring approximately 50 bike share stations and 500 bikes to San Francisco’s downtown core beginning in spring 2012. http://www.sfmta.com/cms/bshare/indxbishare.htm |
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