Comments on: UA bike sharing program quick and convenient

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By: Tucson Velo

Tucson Velo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:50:17 +0000

I bet a bunch of the people who say, “I’d do that if these things were to change,” would come up with some other excuse once their conditions have been met.

It is clear more people will find other ways to get around when driving becomes more difficult and or expensive. The high gas prices showed us that.

I wonder how many bike commuters were lost when the UA decided not to raise the parking rates.

By: Tucson Velo

Tucson Velo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:50:00 +0000

I bet a bunch of the people who say, “I’d do that if these things were to change,” would come up with some other excuse once their conditions have been met.

It is clear more people will find other ways to get around when driving becomes more difficult and or expensive. The high gas prices showed us that.

I wonder how many bike commuters were lost when the UA decided not to raise the parking rates.

By: Red Star

Red Star — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:58:03 +0000

“The biggest complaint I hear about why people continue to cling to driving in and paying the exorbitant parking ransom is that if they take the bus, they can’t leave campus for errands or lunch and get back in time.”

A sage observation that could be extended to autoculture and USA in general. These people are mentally scattered, frantic, and chaotic. The automobile runs cover for them…it simply doesn’t occur to them to run errands efficiently and at another time and place or to pack (gasp, OMG) a simple lunch. They put a low value on their time and yours. One might say it’s a status symbol.

Go ‘cats!

By: Red Star

Red Star — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:58:00 +0000

Go ‘cats!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:03:36 +0000

Or it will get more people on the bus at least. The biggest complaint I hear about why people continue to cling to driving in and paying the exorbitant parking ransom is that if they take the bus, they can’t leave campus for errands or lunch and get back in time.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:03:00 +0000

By: Tucson Velo

Tucson Velo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:23:44 +0000

Coghauler,

I asked and he said they do plan on providing the lights. They are also going to start giving away lights when people register their bikes with the UA.

Red Star,

I think you are probably right about it not helping with parking. I suppose it could eventually encourage a few people who have ridden on one of the UA bikes to try commuting by bike, but probably not a lot of them.

It probably does eliminate some auto trips by people who have already parked on campus and want to get lunch off campus or run an errand.

It will be interesting to see who is using it. I’ll try to follow up in a few months and get some more actual numbers and hopefully more detail on the riders.

By: Tucson Velo

Tucson Velo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:23:00 +0000

Coghauler,

I asked and he said they do plan on providing the lights. They are also going to start giving away lights when people register their bikes with the UA.

Red Star,

It probably does eliminate some auto trips by people who have already parked on campus and want to get lunch off campus or run an errand.

It will be interesting to see who is using it. I’ll try to follow up in a few months and get some more actual numbers and hopefully more detail on the riders.

By: Red Star

Red Star — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:00:54 +0000

It would be interesting to know who is using this program. (The data should be easy to pull and aggregate from the form)

If program users live on campus (as in dorms and surrounding neighborhoods), then are they not simply substituting biking for what they used to do, i.e. walking? There’s nothing wrong with that as far as it goes and it can be a part of the educational experience for these people that may pay benefits later on.

But isn’t the main problem with UA, when it comes to transpo, getting to campus and where to put the damn automobile? Red Star isn’t seeing how the program addresses that one.