Shared Bike Scheme
From:
David Strand
Date:
2007 Jul 18 05:29 UTC
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Since Minneapolis' sustainability goals include increasing the percentage of
travelers into downtown coming by public transit, by bike and by walking this
type of program seems a no brainer towards those ends.
Also, if technology can be used similiar to that of the metro pass with a swipe
card of some kind, it would also be useful to increase bus ridership into
downtown by facilitating bike riding to and from suburban transit stations and
locations in the suburbs for those reverse commuting as well as help and
encourage people to use bicycles to get around within suburban communities.
Doing the program together with willing suburban communities would allow costs
for the system to be shared across more communities or under the metro council
and also be more likely to pull in state funding by spreading the benefits.
David Strand
Plymouth
----- Original Message ----
From: Emilie Quast <e-quas@tc.umn.edu>
1) Paris has tied the bike plan to their Metro-Pass plan,
apparently. It looks like you use the Cart Orange to charge
out. This is a cousin to our bus pass, and involves one permanent ID
card with weekly (could be monthly) passes. I assume that instead of
getting a gold weekly or one trip purple, one will be able to
purchase a different color bike pass. The technology is there for
Minneapolis to pick up and use.
2) Multiple pick up and return is fine. It would be interesting to
see where the bikes migrate and how weather affects that. In
Minneapolis, I assume that a late day snow or rainfall would leave a
lot of bikes downtown.
3) Paris traffic laws are strongly pro-pedestrian. I"m not sure
where bikes fit on the roads there but I think Minneapolis bikers
would have a better time of it. In Paris, all bets are off on the
traffic circles. We don't have anything that dangerous in
Minneapolis. There are no bike routes that I know of in Paris so we
win there.
I'd be a LOT more interested in an observation from the people who
plan the public transit system in Paris. Also, the change in rider
stats for those services over time.-- like two years of observation
Emilie Quast
SE Como, Minneapolis
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