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In addition to the increased upfront cost of the kiosk vs. just more docks, there's also an upfront cost related to siting stations in the first place. The stations need land, obviously, but also sunshine and good access; it's more difficult than it looks to find a good site.

The way that the Alta rebalancing contract works also favors fewer and larger stations; they get penalized when a station is full or empty. In Paris, the contract specifies that a station can remain full/empty as long as other stations very near it are balanced -- although their stations are also very close to one another. That makes it easier to place more stations near one another, since the rebalancing work doesn't grow arithmetically with the station count.

That said, CaBi recently expanded the two stations on either side of my apartment, and sometimes I wish they'd dropped a new station in the middle instead.

by Payton on Dec 21, 2011 1:20 am • link • report

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