Will bike share be expanded in Palo Alto or cancelled? This article sounds like we're getting an expansion, but other news reports say Palo Alto is dropping out of this program. The current Palo Alto deployment is awful with only a handful of stations, but it could work for residents if we expanded the stations out into other parts of the city.

Perhaps with the new permit parking in downtown, a few stations should be put at the perimeter so that people can still park on streets and then rent a bike to downtown.

Just imagine if we undergrounded the train and turned the existing right of way into a bikeway....

@commuter: "Will bike share be expanded in Palo Alto or cancelled?"

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According to this article:

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"The Bay Area Bike Share program would expand tenfold, from 700 to 7,000 bikes, under a proposal announced Thursday by the mayors of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville.

Under the plan, the bike-share program would extend for the first time into the East Bay. It would also increase the number of bikes and bike stations in San Francisco and San Jose, which are two years into a pilot program.

In San Francisco, the number of bikes would jump from 328 to 4,500; in San Jose from 129 to 1,000. In the East Bay, 850 bikes would go to Oakland, 400 to Berkeley and 100 to Emeryville.

Not every place wins. Redwood City, Palo Alto and Mountain View, which participated in the pilot program, are cut out of the new proposal, based on low ridership numbers." ...snip...

A bike to nowhere!

If the rack outside Palo Alto Bicycles - just one block from the Caltrain station rack - was relocated to Town & Country, I'd use the system far more often. Current system design is awful.

I agree that the current system design is terrible. I would use it all the time if there were stations at the Midtown Shopping Center, Town & Country, and maybe Stanford Shopping Center. There are currently too few stations and too poorly spaced out.