City of Vancouver Parks Board has approved 11 Mobi stations in its parks. This according to Michael Mui in 24 Hours Vancouver. See other Mobi info below, from the article.
The Park Board designated seven locations in Stanley Park, two at Sunset Beach, one at English Bay and one at Kitsilano Beach, as stations where Mobi users will be able to pick up and drop off bikes, adding to the 72 locations that have already been revealed around the downtown core.
Mobi general manager Mia Kohout . . . said additional consultation will be done with First Nations for the Stanley Park stations, but after that Mobi will be installing the bike infrastructure within the parks.
Park Board spokeswoman Margo Harper said the board is also asking Mobi to advertise park services, in exchange for using parking lot space.
A few Mobi numbers (as of Sept 21, 2016):
- 64 stations activated, another 6 installed and ready (eventually 150 total)
- Around 600 bikes in service (eventually to be 1,500)
- 2-3 trips per day per bike on average
- Total of 73,000 trips so far (1,200 to 1,500 per day)
- Membership is around 5,000
Glad to see this! Crucial to the success of the system.
Sure wish they’d come out to Main/Broadway area….
.. and the yeast van area
So we are subsidizing tourists’ bike rides now? There are private bike rentals for that.
Cheaper for a tourist to use a bike rental shop. Are you concerned with the park locations? Local residents can’t use our parks?
Very happy to see this decision from the Park Board, especially the Kits Beach Park location.
Yes, Jeff of course Mobi is cheaper for tourists, because we the taxpayer are subsidizing it. What’s next, shall we subsidize their horse drawn carriage ride around the park, their entry fees to the Aquarium or Flyover Canada? It looks like the city has found a way to subvert their promise not to intrude on the bike rental market.
Again, MOBI pricing structure means that unless a tourist wants to do a lot of very short rides in a day and change bikes each time, they will find it cheaper to rent a bike from a bike shop. No change there.
Having stations in parks has nothing to do with tourists. Many of us who live here use the parks, and the MOBI pricing doesn’t get cheaper in the parks.
When will we see extension to UBC and areas in between ?
Not sure why the Vancouver Bike Share system (Mobi) would be implemented outside of Vancouver, such as at UBC.
But UBC have their own public bike share already.
Seems like a logical extension to me. Why not N-Van or parts of Burnaby either ?
Bike share system at UBC is poor and more of a club http://planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/transportation-planning/transportation-options/cycling/bike-share-programs
The State muscles in socialist style subsidizing an operator from Florida in a rapid blanket assault on the local commercial operators. (Buy local, yeah, right)
No problem, the costs are underwritten by the taxpayers.
Only the private entrepreneurs, and the taxpayers, can lose.
cough *portmanbridge*
Think of mobi’s more like sidewalks, and streets, and busses … and remember, mobi users are taxpayers also.