08-05-2017, 11:49 AM
It seems like they have a smart-phone based system too now: http://cabikeshare.org/ but I've never used the CAB system before so I have no idea how it works. CAB also uses (or at leasts asks for) volunteer labour and that doesn't really jive with me so much, I would hope they get a free membership out of it or something more tangible than "warm fuzzies" for their work.
I recall some other bikeshare system was trying to start up a year or two ago but AFAIK they never got off the ground. If there's a system to emulate though it would be Hamilton's sobi, it seems to be a real success unlike a lot of other cities bikeshares. I used bixi once in Toronto and found it kind of expensive for doing any kind of real riding... ended up going up and down the Don Valley trail so it wasn't really what bixi was designed for. I guess there's probably a place in Toronto to rent a bike and that's what I should have looked for.
I recall some other bikeshare system was trying to start up a year or two ago but AFAIK they never got off the ground. If there's a system to emulate though it would be Hamilton's sobi, it seems to be a real success unlike a lot of other cities bikeshares. I used bixi once in Toronto and found it kind of expensive for doing any kind of real riding... ended up going up and down the Don Valley trail so it wasn't really what bixi was designed for. I guess there's probably a place in Toronto to rent a bike and that's what I should have looked for.