Comments on: Bike Sharing Coming to SF! http://www.missionmission.org/2010/10/27/bike-sharing-coming-to-sf/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: cr http://www.missionmission.org/2010/10/27/bike-sharing-coming-to-sf/#comment-24274 cr Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:26:14 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=19310#comment-24274 The real problem is wait wait wait

1000 bikes across San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View and Redwood City

Other pilot projects have shown that bike sharing needs density and saturation to work successfully. That’s just not enough bikes in too large an area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi

“In Montreal, the system provided 3,000 bicycles and 300 stations located around Montreal’s central core by June 2009,[2] expanding to 5,000 bicycles and 400 stations later that summer”

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2010/10/27/bike-sharing-coming-to-sf/#comment-24273 MrEricSir Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:20:12 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=19310#comment-24273 Yeah, but if we just bought regular $200 bikes, we could have 40,000 bikes for that price. Really ugly ones that nobody would steal.

]]> By: Allan Hough http://www.missionmission.org/2010/10/27/bike-sharing-coming-to-sf/#comment-24272 Allan Hough Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:38:21 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=19310#comment-24272 A lot of the cost is probably initial infrastructural stuff though, right? Then we can add lots more bikes as the program grows?

]]> By: MrEricSir http://www.missionmission.org/2010/10/27/bike-sharing-coming-to-sf/#comment-24271 MrEricSir Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:36:46 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=19310#comment-24271 Wait wait wait… 1,000 bikes for $7.9 MILLION?

That’s a cost of $7,900 PER BIKE!!!!!!!

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