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Originally Posted by puddlesray
Geez, it was only a proposal to look into the possibility of bike sharing and they still turned it down. They shot down the idea to probe/explore the idea of having it in Calgary. Not worth their time or taxpayers' money, I wonder? If it was the latter, you could probably do a thousand studies for the cost of one interchange in the 'burbs.
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In most other places the bike sharing is funded out of the street furniture advertising agreement. Would make sense to wait until that came up again. Also, not sure where the money goes from that agreement - it may be put 100% back into transit, which could potentially cost transit revenue if we forced the company to provide an additional service.
Paris's bike sharing has turned out to be really expensive to operate, given that experience I am not sure whether private companies would really offer to install at a reasonable price.