Just curious.
How did commuting become the basis to measure the role of bikeshare programs?
As I said earlier, bikeshare doesn't work well for classic, AM in, PM out commuting because of the one way flow.
But cities aren't like giant factories where people go in and work at a fixed work station. Visit any large downtown during the day, and you'll see streets full of people moving around. They go to meetings, banks, transit hubs, schools, shopping, and so on. These are the people who's randomized, non-radial travel patterns keep cabbies busy, and who's use of bikeshare bikes won't have them all accumulating in the same place.
In NYC, roughly a quarter of a million people arrive at Grand Central Station every morning, a large number continue their commute on the subway, the rest walk to midtown destinations. If just 1% of those arrivals opted to use bike share, it would have presented a logistical nightmare.
So, while there's a large docking station at GCS, daily commuters isn't and can't be the target use. However, that doesn't mean that thousands aren't using those bikes all over the city, all day.
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