After taking a couple of weeks of vacation, Hubway has some new expansion Looks like 4 stations were put in today, and three in the last couple of days. Compare to my last update on page 25. Not a single station went in for 3 weeks.
There are now 90 stations
From earlier this year:
More important to local commuters and recreational riders, Hubway is poised for a significant summer expansion. Roughly around the one-year anniversary, it will expand to nearly 110 stations and more than 1,000 bikes, leaping the Charles River and crossing municipal boundaries with 24 stations in Cambridge, eight in Somerville, four in Brookline, and 11 more in Boston.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...cambridge_somerville_and_brookline/?page=full
18 left to be installed....and we're more than halfway through the 2012 hubway season. Wonder if theyll finish the 18 or not. Hope so.
Ive circled the new NEW stations in red because some of the gold stations were active 3 weeks ago. They stay gold for 30 days.
Good to see cambridge filling in, not a huge fan of the south Bosotn stations as they area way too spread out. JFk-Umass is an obvious good shuttle, but the stations are both small, meaning a high chance of being dock-blocked with no alternative.
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Also, a report is out using data from March which paints a bleak picture for hubway
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/16062/which-bikeshare-system-has-the-most-members/
Less than 4,000 annual members is garbage. In comparison, mexico city which runs a system of roughly the same size has 30,000 annual members (cap).
DC, which has a system twice as big, around 20,000.
Hubway isnt doing enough to market to (and support) college students. I think you could easily get over 1,000 members just from BU....but they need a higher station density to support class-class trips.
And the benefit to everyone else? Instead of students using the B line to go two stops, they could and should use hubway....
Hubway should sell a 9 month membership at a special student rate as long as they have the stations to support it (BU would need 4-6 more stations). And then theyd actually have to advertise it.
And check out casual members....the tourists.
Over 300,000 in Miami Beach, which archboston member nobody was calling a disappointing system. Thats over ten times higher than Boston with a not much bigger system....and some ridiculous rates.
I also like this post from that link
Some interesting facts:
DecoBike and CaBi are the only US bikehshares to exceed 1mil trips. To contrast, in April 2012, Bcycle (acording to one of their own press releases) stated that the ridership of all of their programs combined was under 500k which is ironic since Denver was open the for the longest period of time versus any other program.
DecoBike Miami Beach features 14 stations per square mile on average, while CaBi is less than 4 per square mile. Deco also has the highest usage per-bike, per-day on average, with the entire fleet going out about 5 times per day average (not just peak usage).
DecoBike features about 1 bike per 88 residents. CaBi is 1 bike per 1,000 residents. The population of Wash DC is 6 times greater than that of Miami Beach, so you should (in theory) have at least 6 times the number of members and ridership in DC than Miami Beach, but that is definitely not the case. CaBi also runs more bikes and stations for a longer period of time, which of course skews the stats higher.
Deco did not use government funding/tax payer dollars while CaBi used millions of govt funding, hence there is difference in pricing for the end user.
BOTH are amazing programs in their own right. Both are pioneers and risk takers for which efforts have paid off. Hats off to both.
by FactChecker2012 on Sep 7, 2012 12:3
Someone should do these stats for Boston ....