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Dave, are you still involved with bikeshare? Any indication if the new station locations are selected from a pool of sponsors or if some stations were specifically sponsored by the property owner? Mix of both?

If a building owner sponsors its own station, do its tenants get say, discounted annual passes?

earthling wrote:Dave, are you still involved with bikeshare? Any indication if the new station locations are selected from a pool of sponsors or if some stations were specifically sponsored by the property owner? Mix of both?

If a building owner sponsors its own station, do its tenants get say, discounted annual passes?

i am not directly involved in bike share. i do know that if someone wants to pay for a station that bikewalkKC will work to make it happen. not aware of any perks, other than possibly a tax deduction.

station coming to longview lake!

The trail in its current condition will eat cheap bikes.

pash wrote:Did you notice the one "coming soon" down at Longview Lake? That's interesting.

Stations still notably absent from Liberty Memorial/PVP...

Wait, so this isn't a bike share station being built at Liberty Memorial? It looks so much like the stub for one I thought all along that's what they are building here:

seven more are coming this year. not sure where exactly.

Dave, do you mean in addition to the 7 that already show as 'coming soon' on the map? Those locations are now specified.
https://kc.bcycle.com/station-map

Their twitter account has a job posting starting with "With 7 new stations next month + more on the horizon"

That clearly means 8+ stations are planned

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This blog news was just posted referring to the 7 for August, which we already knew about several days ago shown as 'coming soon' on map..
https://kc.bcycle.com/buzz/2017/08/01/s ... -in-august

But the blog doesn't mention more on top of that.

STL shooting itself in foot, no, shooting itself in head...
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metr ... b4e07.html

Am thinking STL only major city not to have started a bikeshare system. How in the hell can this be controversial, it would complement LRT perfectly.

The 7 newest stations are coming online, first two are active.

Baltimore bikeshare may be having issues with too many stolen bikes. Is KC's having any issues?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html

earthling wrote:Baltimore bikeshare may be having issues with too many stolen bikes. Is KC's having any issues?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html

“We aren’t taking an inordinate amount of reports for stolen bikes,” Smith said. “Some might be taken or left discarded. They might not be reported as a theft.”

Sounds like they're having a normal amount of theft.

Is KC's system?

flyingember wrote:The 7 newest stations are coming online, first two are active.

Impressively quick. Added three more this week

Saw a tech this morning working on installing the Armour/Main bike station.

earthling wrote:Is KC's system?

less than normal.

All new bike stations now online...
https://kc.bcycle.com/station-map

earthling wrote:All new bike stations now online...
https://kc.bcycle.com/station-map

The map has 39 stations live. the one closest to KU Med is missing