If you want to have a great bike-share program in your city, a few factors are key, according to a
report just out from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. They include:
- Lots of densely situated stations, ideally no more than about 325 yards apart
- Many bikes (10-30 per 1,000 residents in the coverage area)
- A sweeping coverage area that's more than six square miles
- Solid, usable bikes with hardware that discourages theft
- Easy-to-use stations and payment systems
If you don't have enough bikes and stations in a wide enough area, you're setting a system up for failure.
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