txlseries4
Active Member
With Bike Share promoting valets for concerts they really should just do the same thing with TFC games
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dufferin1
New Member
There was only one rejected bike remaining when I got there after the game, which I safely returned to a working dock
They definitely need more racks at BMO though, it's virtually impossible to park there before a game. I also suggested this to them through that map suggestion page they released recently.
evandyk
Senior Member
A couple of homeless guys had two stolen bike share bikes on Richmond in front of the cloud garden this morning. I told the bike share employee parking bikes on temperance Street about it, and he kind of shrugged and said there was nothing he could do.
I get that he’s not gonna go over there and wrestle them away personally, but he can’t even make a phone call?
I get that he’s not gonna go over there and wrestle them away personally, but he can’t even make a phone call?
Northern Light
Superstar
Flag it to Bikeshare......ideally the boss.
CEO Toronto Parking Authority :
Scott.Collier@greenpmobility.com
Mihairokov
Active Member
How did you know they were stolen?
evandyk
Senior Member
Jus
Just a hunch, I guess. I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong about it, though.
evandyk
Senior Member
At Bay and King, I ran into the guy who seemed to be in charge of the valets, so I chatted with him. He said that the bike share employees are told not to try to recover stolen bikes in this situation because someone got stabbed a few years ago. Might be an urban legend, but I didn't cross-examine him.
He said that even if they call the cops, the cops won't do anything because they're too busy giving out parking tickets (definitely an urban legend!) so nobody does anything.
daptive
Senior Member
Bike Share needs to keep their finger on the city’s pulse to understand when they will need to deploy valet services. It’s disheartening to hear “I would’ve bike shared but I know there will be no docks”
I’d be very interested to see the historical data of bike movements overlaid above a city social calendar and map
nfitz
Superstar
Lots of workers, but barely any residents. Only about 9,000 people in 2005 (odd I can't see a more recent number) - perhaps more hotel rooms than that
. So other than service vehicles, there's very few reason personal vehicles should ever enter.Whoever came up with that one probably mistook the Parking Enforcement officers to the regular TPS officers.
daptive
Senior Member
Has anyone else been getting this error a lot lately? The dock easily had 12 bikes but only 5 were accessible. None of the inaccessible bikes had red lights on either so it was a game of trial and error to get the right bike.
evandyk
Senior Member
A lot of people biking to work today. Maybe the most I’ve ever seen. And the valets are moving them somewhere else around the corner too.
Amare
Senior Member
I imagine the big reason why is because of the King+Chruch intersection closure, and the resulting mess known as the TTC that people are looking to avoid.
It's going to be interesting to see how this trend goes.
Northern Light
Superstar
Ok, just the other day, I'm being laudatory for Bikeshare having finally put bikes back in, in the north-west section of the City............ ...but today...
This makes no sense to me..........I get that some students/staff may bike off campus...........but to basically be back to zero bikes again after just a few days? What's going on here?
This makes no sense to me..........I get that some students/staff may bike off campus...........but to basically be back to zero bikes again after just a few days? What's going on here?
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
I can only suspect everyone in the area is taking the bikes onto the Finch hydro corridor and biking to North York City Centre.
Northern Light
Superstar
Only problem w/that theory........there are no bikes in North York Centre either: