Bikeshare Programs

I haven't seen this come up before, but with the growth of the bike (and scooter) sharing companies out there I imagine this will start coming into play more and more. Typically, the bikeshare programs that I have seen started with having their own "hubs" throughout the city where you had to return the bikes, but those have since moved to the the "park it anywhere" model that the scooter companies use. Does your local bikeshare program provide their own hubs? If so, is there one nearby your project? In that case, MAYBE you could argue that the intent is met. I still think GBCI would want to see SOME storage though in case occupants did ride their own bikes. I would think they would require a study and some background calculations on how much you would have to provide.
 

Looking through the v4.1 LT credits, this is included in the bike credit language now - "On-site bicycle sharing stations within the project boundary may count for 50% of the long-term and short-term bicycle storage space." "Within the project boundary" sounds tricky and not necessarily realistic, but at least the intent there makes sense, having the project sponsor or add infrastructure to support the added demand. Agreed that this is growing and it makes sense to adapt the credit requirements to it!

Hi Emily,

Where are you accessing this LEED v4.1 info?

Hi Michelle, if you go to the USGBC credit library you can select "v4.1" in the version drop-down. A couple folks dropped links in the comments on LEEDUser's blog post about 4.1. 

Thanks Emily. I guess I expected a little more fanfare about the long awaited info being available.

Right? Not all rating systems and credits are up there, so maybe we'll get an announcement when that's complete.