Which city has the busiest transit system ? (Outside of NYC )
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^ might as well take advantage of the bike sharing programs as far as the commuter programs for transit. Most cities are getting into it with the huge increase in bike sharing going on. I'm amazed at the hundreds of our blue Divvy bikes I see all over the downtown area every day.
Chicago's is still very young, it only started in July. It's been compared a lot to DC's system, as that had been the second largest in the country until Chicago passed it last month (just 2.5 months into operation). NYC's is still much larger. Chicago's has gotten over 9,000 members in less than 3 months and has around 6,500 trips per day. Chicago's daily ridership got past DC's in only 2.5 months, to a level it took DC a few years to achieve. Biking has been a huge thing around here for years though, and the city is installing dozens of miles of protected/separated bike lanes. It just needed the sharing system to be in place....the bikers were already there waiting. Chicago just passed its 300th station installed downtown and within about a 5 mile radius of downtown. They're outsid dozens of train stations and then about every 1/4 mile along main streets. People use them to bridge the gap between train stations and their homes, and then to just go directly from their neighborhood station to the downtown area (which has dozens of stations all packed fairly close).
Last edited by Chicago60614; 10-23-2013 at 03:43 PM..
^ might as well take advantage of the bike sharing programs as far as the commuter programs for transit. Most cities are getting into it with the huge increase in bike sharing going on. I'm amazed at the hundreds of our blue Divvy bikes I see all over the downtown area every day.
Chicago's is still very young, it only started in July. It's been compared a lot to DC's system, as that had been the second largest in the country until Chicago passed it last month (just 2.5 months into operation). NYC's is still much larger. Chicago's has gotten over 9,000 members in less than 3 months and has around 6,500 trips per day. Chicago's daily ridership got past DC's in only 2.5 months, to a level it took DC a few years to achieve. Biking has been a huge thing around here for years though, and the city is installing dozens of miles of protected/separated bike lanes. It just needed the sharing system to be in place....the bikers were already there waiting. Chicago just passed its 300th station installed downtown and within about a 5 mile radius of downtown. They're outsid dozens of train stations and then about every 1/4 mile along main streets. People use them to bridge the gap between train stations and their homes, and then to just go directly from their neighborhood station to the downtown area (which has dozens of stations all packed fairly close).
I know Ventra is already sucking a lot, but I thought it'd be nice if part of the new CTA/PACE card would also be usable for Divvy and/or there could be commuter subsidies for using Divvy like there often are with the El/Metra/bus etc. I suppose one could use the Ventra card to pay for Divvy since it can also function as a debit card, but I think it'd be useful if the bikeshare program were included in the whole commuter package.
I know Ventra is already sucking a lot, but I thought it'd be nice if part of the new CTA/PACE card would also be usable for Divvy and/or there could be commuter subsidies for using Divvy like there often are with the El/Metra/bus etc. I suppose one could use the Ventra card to pay for Divvy since it can also function as a debit card, but I think it'd be useful if the bikeshare program were included in the whole commuter package.
I found the Ventra system to be pretty easy to use. Much easier than our TAP system in Los Angeles, which still has quite a few kinks to work out.
NYC's is still much larger. Chicago's has gotten over 9,000 members in less than 3 months and has around 6,500 trips per day. Chicago's daily ridership got past DC's in only 2.5 months, to a level it took DC a few years to achieve. Biking has been a huge thing around here for years though, and the city is installing dozens of miles of protected/separated bike lanes. It just needed the sharing system to be in place....the bikers were already there waiting. Chicago just passed its 300th station installed downtown and within about a 5 mile radius of downtown.
While NYC system is probably as big as all the other bikeshare systems combined in ridership (don't know the official numbers), it is still very new. We only have 330 stations in NYC (Phase 1) and it only covers half of Manhattan (below 59th street). We wouldn't know the true extent of NYC system until they roll out Phases 2 & 3.
^ might as well take advantage of the bike sharing programs as far as the commuter programs for transit. Most cities are getting into it with the huge increase in bike sharing going on. I'm amazed at the hundreds of our blue Divvy bikes I see all over the downtown area every day.
Chicago's is still very young, it only started in July. It's been compared a lot to DC's system, as that had been the second largest in the country until Chicago passed it last month (just 2.5 months into operation). NYC's is still much larger. Chicago's has gotten over 9,000 members in less than 3 months and has around 6,500 trips per day. Chicago's daily ridership got past DC's in only 2.5 months, to a level it took DC a few years to achieve. Biking has been a huge thing around here for years though, and the city is installing dozens of miles of protected/separated bike lanes. It just needed the sharing system to be in place....the bikers were already there waiting. Chicago just passed its 300th station installed downtown and within about a 5 mile radius of downtown. They're outsid dozens of train stations and then about every 1/4 mile along main streets. People use them to bridge the gap between train stations and their homes, and then to just go directly from their neighborhood station to the downtown area (which has dozens of stations all packed fairly close).
Yeah, DC didn't roll out a huge system. The growth has been more organic. The stations are going up regionally now though. Almost all the suburbs are adding stations around their metro stations and surrounding neighborhoods with study's ongoing. I know that isn't something that would work in most cities that don't have a subway system that goes into the suburbs but for those areas that do, it will revolutionize how regions travel and just give metro areas more options versus just the city center. I guess that would have to coincide with master planning though since I know most regions don't plan to urbanize everywhere and would like to just keep their urbanity in the city center. Will be interesting to see if other regions begin to do it though. I don't know how well these would work with commuter rail since it would not be used all day without the employment base. I know for DC, our metro stations tend to be more mixed use with jobs and residential in our suburbs. Most stations without jobs have plans to add them.
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