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CaBi has a great system and the semi-permanent structures of bike docks are great for residents, tourists, businesses surrounding each station and the infrastructure in between each station.

As you stated, SoBi-style sharing is not at all friendly to tourists and prime for abuse. Because they can be parked in semi-private or obscure locations, thus making it easier for the user to keep control of, the "sharing" factor is lessoned.

Also, there is no sense of permanance with SoBi, unlike the sleek CaBi stations. What will encourage cities or suburbs to build the requsite infrastructure to support cycling is bikes are scattered through the region? At least for planners, it's easy to see point A to point B with CaBi.

And costs for stations are expected to go down as CaBi introduces coporate-sponsored stations and advertising.

by cmc on Apr 30, 2012 1:19 pm • link • report

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