Rough notes
Adam Cooper - masters student studying a bike share program in UBC. Also works for TransLink in the cycling division
Universities resistent to advertising, suggestion to get bike shops to sponsor, provide bikes, or a guerilla program for people to provide & repair old bikes
Tying it into the student card means another layer of administration for the school: expensive
Roland: no baby steps! If New York can do it quickly, so can Vancouver. Ban the kamikazes.
Whitehorse bus driver - cycling in lanes is a safety issue: bus drivers have to be concerned about their passengers and traffic, and wild moves by bikers lead to sudden turns on busses - cyclist education, wider lanes (he says that Vancouver bus lanes are barely wide enough for buses)
Incentives for using the system: chance to win tuition, smaller prizes like bike gear, Canucks tickets, points that you can redeem
Capital costs: true public system 110 bikes, (UBC would be 200) - $1,000 per bike station + $500 per bike, full time project manager position, $500,000 capital cost
Already existing bike co-op
Dalhousie: campuses are 4-5 blocks apart, separated by houses, shops.
Adam: Purple & yellow bikes
Central Valley Greenway
More Stuff from Roland
- instead of decentralized UBC Bike share, open source it?
- parallels between UBC Bike Sharing and Vancouver bike sharing
- New York did it in 30 days why can't we do something
- start with a big step on a less frequented route? where big step = pylons and reducing vehicle width e.g. on Alexander Street which hardly has any traffic?
- Radical ideas inspired by Gil Penalosa
- bike share bikes and secure bike parking at every transit node (e.g. Ferry station, bus loop, train station, subway station, LRT station, SkyTrain system) in all major metropolitan areas in Canada
