Since LEED came along many cities (DC, NYC,BOSTON) have now added bike share programs. These amount to very robust infrastructures not dissimilar to the Subway system, which is more accessible, safer and affordable than a personal bike Has anyone attempted successfully to utilize their city bike share program to document bike-ability for their transient count?
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Deborah Lucking
Director of SustainabilityFentress Architects
LEEDuser Expert
244 thumbs up
June 20, 2017 - 3:55 pm
I am curious about this as well.
Our project is in a tourist-destination city that has a very successful bikeshare program, and would like to figure out the proportion of local and visitor bike-share users.
Suspect the data is there, how to mine it?
Jon Hall
PrincipalGGLO
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October 12, 2017 - 2:57 pm
We attempted to use bike share bike parking as a portion of our total numbers. This was deemed to be helpful to encourage bike parking, but ultimately did not qualify, as the intent of this credit is to provide _storage_ and changing rooms. As the bike share locations were not accessible to all users, even if provided for no cost, they did not meet the storage requirement as non-bike share users could not use the locations to store their bikes.
I cannot comment on a reduction in transient numbers for expected bike share users.
Deborah Lucking
Director of SustainabilityFentress Architects
LEEDuser Expert
244 thumbs up
October 12, 2017 - 4:22 pm
To clarify, the bicycle storage and changing room requirements only apply to FTEs, not all users. We would really appreciate some guidance on how/whether to count the bikeshare component.