They’re natural conversation-starters: You can’t
participate in bike share without visiting a bike share station.
Stations bring people together around a common interest, giving them an
opportunity and a reason to communicate with people they might not
otherwise meet. Being that they serve as nodes in a transportation
system, these stations also have a moderate sense of urgency to them:
everyone there is trying to get somewhere else. This lowers the
barrier-to-entry for casual social interaction for people on the shyer
end of the spectrum, since it’s easy to smile and say “Nice helmet!” or
“It’s a great day for a ride!” to someone as you both hop on bikes.
Since instances of social interaction lead to a desire for greater contact, bike share stations make for happier, more social public spaces overall. link
103 Adopt a city bike kiosk
A business adjacent to a kiosk could adopt it. The manager of the grocery store across the street from where I live told me he opposed installation of the kiosk in front of his store. When I asked what if there was seating there to use as an outdoor cafe by his shoppers, he changed his mind on opposition to the kiosk.
After months of discussions with area businesses, the City and Royal
Blue Grocery are taking an unprecedented step in making a little piece
(250 sq.ft.) of Congress Avenue friendlier to those strolling, shopping,
people watching and more!
At a Citibike Kiosk, the streets are paved with asphalt
At Extra Place, between the Bowery and 2nd ave, the streets are paved with Art.
By adding art to the street side of the Citibike kiosks, each one can
become a unique work of art reflecting the block or neighborhood it is
created in.
update 7/15/2013
Turns out DOT may be doing some painting. This from Tribeca Citizen: TEMPORARY ART ON FRANKLIN STREET
A city Department of Transportation rep said that the asphalt on the little block of Franklin that’s now closed because of Citi Bike
racks is set to be painted by an artist. ... The paint
will be exterior-grade latex, and it’ll be there for a year, slowly
fading over time. Also, the DOT plans on considering this idea at other
Citi Bike locations. link
Capital Bikeshare in Washington D.C. has announced the Winter Weather Warrior contest.
To the Capital Bikeshare annual or monthly member with the most trips
taken from January 1- February 28 goes a three-year extension of his/her
membership, two annual memberships for friends, a $100 Hudson Trail
gift card and a $25 Starbucks gift card. According to the contest rules, “any trip on a bad weather day counts
as double.” link
BTW what happens durinng the winter to bikeshare systems? With a simple tweet of “À l’année prochaine!“, BIXI, Montreal’s bikesharing system, has gone into hibernation for the harsh Canadian winter.
Canada’s first and North America’s largest public bike program is not
the only system that is shutting up shop for the winter months. Bike
systems in Denver, the Twin Cities, Nashville, and Washington state
are shutting down until springtime. Bike maintenance, rider safety
concerns, and expected low winter ridership are amongst the reasons
systems will be shut over the next few months.link
109:Enjoy Cycling Tel Aviv with your Own Private Bike Guide!
From Tel Aviv, Bike Share Guides
You may be limited in time or maybe you just don’t want to bother studying maps and biking on your own. If you’re looking for a private guide for yourself or
your group, I recommend my good friends from ProRider. George, the
cyclist in black -
And Michal, you can't miss her on the beach!
I’ve been on biking trips with them a few times and had a ball.
I trust and recommend them as biking professionals. link 110 Contact info for area rep
Post a Phone number on the kiosk for area Citibike Rep
111 Signs with advice on top of Kiosks
Do not salmon
Wear Bright Clothing
112 Suggestion Boxes
a) for Citibike Rep b) for Block
113 Post a Rep Schedule on Kiosk
I ran into our area Citibike rep twice one day. Have not seen him befor
or since. Have no way to contact him.The area rep goes from station to
station, at a random basis I assume . But at least once a day foer a set
amount of time he should be locatable at a specific place. Perhaps a
different station every day.
Schedule
From 3pm-4pm
Mondays-26 & 8th
Tue 27th and 7th
etc...
114 Handouts & Sales
Area Rep should handout NYC Bike map, Park Chelsea map and other useful
items. Sell low cost helmets? Carry stock in a bike trailer.
115 Electric Vehicle Charging.
As time goes on we're going to need more Citibike kiosks, there's only
so much on street space to take away from automobiles. The current
owners of private automobiles take up way too much public space for
private use.People still need cars. lets make it as advantageous as
possible for these cars to be:
Add electric charging outlets to Bikeshare Kiosks. Small vehicles as above can double park at kiosks while charging.
-car share vehicles that can sense and help avoid pedestrian collisions
It's way too early by decades for autonomous vehicles to be on the
streets. It's not too early start thinking about equipping car share
vehicles with technology that will be able to see pedestrians and help
drivers avoid collisions. The cost to do this on private cars would be
prohibitive, the cost on a car share vehicle would be amortized over
many many shares.
116 Power Trips
This is a variation on the pedal power
concept and how elese to use a Citibike dock key. People who use the
dock fitness cycle will get a free ride after n minutes of cycling.
117 Corporate Trips
I
just ran into a bunch of people that all seemed to know each other and
were all taking out Citibikes together. When asked what was occurring
they said they were all worked at the Design Firm David Monn and were going out on a corporate workout outing together.
118 Meetups Some of the many other ways Citi could further leverage the sponsorship
would be to organize Meetups to bring together loyal Citibike fans,
sponsor special bike rides for Citibike members-Huff Post
119Explore Melbourne on a blue bike!
I found this on the Melbourne Bike sharewebsite they offer tour maps. there. In the areas covered by specific tours, printed copies of these pdf can be made available at the docks.
39th Street to South Street Seaport Coast along the Hudson River Greenway bike path Starting Point: Bike station just outside the
Midtown Ferry Terminal (12th Avenue and 39th Street). Head 18 blocks
downtown on the bike path and take in the picturesque views of Weehawken
and the Hudson. Pit stop: Drop off the bike at
22nd Street and 11th Avenue, and take a load off at Chelsea Waterside
Park (23rd Street and 12th Avenue), where we recommend sitting and
lounging on the park’s big lawn. There’s a ’wichcraft at the adjoining
Chelsea Piers where you can cool off with a glass of lemonade ($2.50 for
a large). But you can also just grab the greatest of all classic NYC
treats: the pushcart hot dog ($2).
Cruise control: Move south along the Greenway bike
path and keep an eye out for students at the Trapeze School New York
swinging back and forth like a bunch of swashbuckling pirates at Houston
and West streets. But the best way to appreciate Manhattan’s shoreline
is from the South Street Seaport (southstreetseaport.com). Destination:
Drop off the bike at South Street and Gouverneur Lane. The
food-friendly folks responsible for Brooklyn Flea have curated
SmorgasBar at the Seaport, which runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday to
Thursday (till 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday) and has some of our
favorite food and drink vendors, such as Asia Dog, Red Hook Lobster
Pound, Blue Marble Ice Cream and many others. But the Seaport is all
about the views, so stop by the Topsider bar at the shipping containers
at Fulton and South streets.
120 How to secure Free helmets to a Bike
Another great idea from Melbourne Australia bikeshare
They give out helmets for free, and then ask that you secure the free helmet to the bike/dock. If you check out this video, you'll see that their docks/bikes look just like our docks/bikes.
Additionally they offer over FIFTY locations throughout Melbourne where you can buy a helmet for $5.00
I was thinking how can you sell helmets for $5.00 turns out they can be bought direct from China for as low as $1.50 each
In Melbourne as stated above, there are fifty locations where you can buy a helmet for
$5.00 . What about an alternative, $1.00 to rent a helmet from a store,
and you get .50 cents back if you return it. Helmets can only be bought at this price if you possess a key. -and you are limited to the amount of helmets you can take out before you return them(see #121). Citibike can supply helmets to the stores for a low enough cost (free?) to assure they will always make money on the sales.
121 Multi User Keys
The suggestion was made before that the Citibike key can have more uses
than the one it presently has, #120 above is one use, here's an idea from Montreal's Bikeshare
The multi-users key is a BIXI membership designed to be shared among
your employees for their business needs. See the advantages: - 1 hour allowed for every trip instead of 45 minutes with the one-year regular membership; - all trips made with the key will appear on your personal space on the web site; - corporate responsability: use a corporate credit card to activate your multi-users account. Cost: $230 per key, taxes included link
122 The Tricycle Option for people with Disabilities
From Madison Wisconsin B-Cycle (Waterloo,
WI – April 17, 2013) B-cycle, one of the nation’s leading providers of
bike sharing systems, today announced the introduction of the “B-Trike,”
the first fully integrated bike share tricycle. Madison B-cycle is
currently street testing the B-Trike. It will soon be made available to
all B-cycle systems. The B-Trike provides public bike share access to
those that are not comfortable riding a two-wheeled bike.
The
B-Trike is a commitment that I made to advocate Laureen Ferris from the
City and County of Denver who championed for persons with disabilities,”
said Bob Burns, President of B-cycle, LLC. link
123 Are there bike-share bicycles built for two so we can team up and get through this together? One user per bike. And no, users are not permitted to ride on another user’s handlebars. -New York Observer
Why not? If there are tricycle bikes for the disabled at bikeshares, why not tandem bikes?
Kind-hearted Daily News readers touched by the story of a callous thief
who stole a beloved tandem bike from a blind East Harlem resident have
deluged the disabled man with new two-wheelers and offers of cash.
124 Multicity key It
may not be possible to dock your bike in Washington, but using your key
on a Washington DC dock and visa versa is a possibility.NYC bikeshare is
part of Alta which has systems in several other cities. their
competitor B-cycle does this already. (Waterloo, WI – March 15, 2013)
B-cycle, one of the nation’s leading providers of bike sharing systems,
today announced its “B-connected” annual membership initiative between
15 of its B-cycle systems. Starting today, annual members traveling to
specified B-cycle systems across the U.S. can use their annual
membership to check out bikes in any of the participating cities just as
they do in their home city.link
125 Free Demo Fridays
Hold Citibike demos at select Docks on Fridays , give free one day passes* to those who come, that's what Aspen's We-Cycles do
Learn all about how WE-cycle works at our FREE DEMO FRIDAYS, starting June 21st and running throughout July. Free
demos are hosted by WE-cycle staff from 12:00 - 1:00pm at select
stations around town and are open to all. Participants will be granted a
FREE WE-cycle day pass to try it out on us! Click here to view our Current Events calendar and find the next Free Demo Friday station location. link
*Thinking of joining Citi Bike, New
York City’s new bike share system? Attend a Citi Bike Street Skills class for a short session that includes bike share basics, like pricing
and station locations, as well as essential street riding tips. Every
participant will leave with a free 24-hour pass to Citi Bike, worth
$9.95!
Helmet Hub
For Boston, an MIT designed helmet vending machine
128 Are there bike-share Geniuses to help troubleshoot how to learn to ride a bike-share bike? It is understood that only people who already know how to ride bikes will participate in the program.
Funny Observer bike sharing article. However, you can take
lessons, free. A New York City nonprofit has classes for adults &
kids who need better bike riding skills, or who need to actually learn
how to ride. The classes are conducted at several locations under the
auspices of Bike New York. There has been such a big response that many
classes are fully subscribed, but keep checking at http://
If this were Switzerland, the answer would be maybe.
Bikes at stations with a touch screen have a lock on the frame that
can be used to secure the bike. You must always carry the key with you
and leave it in the lock when you return the bike. Do not lock the frame
when you return the bike. Bikes at stations with a totem are not provided with a lock. We
strongly advise you to bring a lock with you if you want to make any
stops on your journey other than at PubliBike stations. Bike locks are
available free of charge (on payment of a deposit) from certain partners
located near our stations ("Maison du vélo" in Lausanne, tourist office
in Fribourg, Yverdon-les-Bains, Morges, Aigle, Nyon, Bulle,
Estavayer-le-Lac, Avenches and Morat). The list of sales points is shown
on each station totem and on the list of sales points
130 Add a tablet PC As long as were adding seating to the Kiosks, what about adding Tablet PC's for use by neighborhood residents.
And then there's what they are going in Denmark...
GOBIKE riders will have real time information at their figure tips with a touch screen computer between the handle bars as they negotiate the one of the world's leading cycle-friendly cities.
The on-board computer will plan your route with a map display. It can give real-time transport schedule information with ticketing integration. It can furnish information on activities in areas through which you are cycling. Real-time bike and docking station availability is displayed as well.
In Copehagen Gobikes have a tablet PC on them. This is one intelligent bike. For bikers this allows route planning, guided tours and train timetables. Could this be made available to non-bikers through purchase of a special bikeshare key?
131 Offer Financial Literacy Course
In D.C. this issue was addressed via the Bank on D.C.
initiative, in which low-income residents received a free Capital
Bikeshare membership after completing a financial literacy course.
Liability for the membership was shared by the individual, the city, a
bank and Alta Bicycle Share, the Portland, Oregon-based company that
runs the D.C. system and will be operating Chicago’s as well. link
132 Collect No parking Tickets
This fellow collected 2 tickets for illegal parking at a dock
133 Advertise trips to far away exotic locations
The sign says...."Enjoy a Heavenly ride to Hell's Kitchen"
I wonder how the garbage was dealt with in the past with automobiles parked here? Was there enough room for the sanatation men to get through then? Or did people always play garbage toss here?
135 Kiosk's maps printout
Portable Kiosks maps at every dock.
Was at a kiosk on Rivington St, fellow asks if there are kiosks in Washington Square. He has a smartphone but google maps is still downloading. And what about the 50% of the population that doesn't have a smartphone? I
136 Bike washing stations
137 Disposable and collapsible helmets
Newspapers are collected and blended with water to create a pulp. No
bleaching or adhesive is added although an organic and food safe
additive is also combined that ensures the helmets water resistance for
up to 6 hours of rain. Natural pigments to communicate helmet size is
also added. link
Michael
Rose, a 3rd year design student from De Montfort University in the UK,
recently designed a helmet with a collapsible polypropylene centre
structure. According to Michael, “38% of helmet users have issues
with storage and carrying of a helmet and 23% of people blame the
inconvenience of a regular helmet for not wearing one.” His design
reduces to less than half the original size when folded and has passed a
1 meter drop with a weighted head-form (based on the EN1078 testing
standards). . See additional images and drawings from the project on his Coroflot page.
138 Bike Kiosk Insurance
Boris Bike in London offer free Liability insurance. Why not in NYC. If not free how about as an add on to purchase at the kiosk.
From London:
You are covered through the insurer RSA for the following amount if
you accidentally cause damage to someone or something else while using
the cycle. £2,000,000 liability cover for each incident Excess: You will be responsible for paying a £250 excess for each claim.
What's not covered
Personal accident insurance is not included. You may wish to take out
your own insurance for this. Some cycling organisations include it in
their membership benefits. link
139 Eyes on the Street Part 2 (see #54)
They attract a stream of diverse users at all times of day & night:
A truly great place facilitates a mix of uses over time; if there’s
nothing to keep a space active at night, it can create uncomfortable or
even unsafe conditions for passersby, and detract from the entire
community. Bike share stations ensure a steady flow of people through a
space even after dark, keeping “eyes on the street” and making other
constructive after-hours uses more likely. This extends the usefulness
of a place as a social hub for the surrounding community. . link 140 Leave Flyers for Citibike Users 141 Get written about in the NY Times The Many Uses of the New Hitching Post Bike-Sharing Docks Also Serve as Gyms or Trash Cans
142 Substitute fire Hydrant low enough for a dog to swathe almost the entire surface with urine. NYT
143 Dip Bars Two men were recently spotted using empty station docks in Midtown as dip bars for upper body toning. . NYT
144 Changing Room In front of Grand Central Terminal
last week, a man used a bike kiosk as a changing room, claiming part of
the station to spread out his gym bag, peel off a sweat-stained
T-shirt, apply deodorant and throw on a fresh top. . NYT
145 Garbage Pail
perhaps if real garbage pails were placed adjacent to the docks this would't occur. And while few New Yorkers are brazen enough to litter on the hoods of
parked cars, the bike stations installed in their stead have attracted
all manner of urban waste. At a single station in Brooklyn last week,
near Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue, the menu included rotting
strawberries, pale fries, an empty can of an alcoholic energy drink and a
crushed pack of cigarettes — all scattered atop unoccupied spaces.
. NYT
146 Gathering Spot for Children
Bike sharing’s most enterprising users seem to reside in Chinatown, or
at least play there, beside a park near Canal and Forsyth Streets. A
station at that location, where the locked bikes face one another in
neat rows, has become a gathering spot for children without bikes of
their own. They ride in place, as many as 10 at a time, ringing the
bells until their fingers tire. Or an adult approaches. . NYT
147 They act as casual landmarks that concentrate activity:
Bike share stations, with their colorful bikes and signage, help to
make a place more comfortable and navigable for people who might not be
familiar with a neighborhood. Think of the relief you felt the last time
you were walking around, lost, and stumbled onto a subway or bus
station; transit nodes help to re-orient us when we get turned around,
chipping away at the sense of alienation that sometimes accompanies
visiting a new place. The visual impact of these stations is also great
for surrounding businesses and attractions, as the identifying signage
and maps often highlight nearby points of interest. link
Mc Donalds lets people know that over 99 billion have beens served. How many people can be seated if real seats are put in at Citibike Kiosks? Yjis time lapse video shows the useage of a Pop-up cafe in NYC. This one seats 12 and 96 people were counted here.
-Currently we have 300+ Citibike kiosks
If each sit 10 people per day that's 3000 people seated per day.
At 20 it would become 6000 per day.
Figuring 200 reasonable weather days per year, that's over 1 million people per year.
-When Citibike reaches its next goal of 600 Kiosks these figures would double to 6,000 and 12,000 people per day.
149 Rain Cover Dispensers
I biked up to 34th st the other day. Then it started raining and stopped. Would have biked back, but bike seats were wet. I had no way to dry it off If a plastic rain cover dispenser were at the kiosk, I would have been able to bike home.
150 Telephone Booth
currently if you are at a Citibike Kiosk and need to call Citibike, you need a cellphone. If for any reason you do not have a cellphone with you you are out of luck. NYC will be installing new telephone in 2014. By placing them near the Citibike Kiosks. It would solve the communications issue. With an LCD screen it would also allow for much better wayfinding then the printed maps now at the kiosks.
151 Bike Kiosk Status Lite
Mount a status light atop the docking station’s solar panel (see mockup below). This
is a somewhat low-tech solution, and is not a replacement for the
website or mobile apps. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the
maps by a user in the immediate vicinity of several docking stations.
Users walking or riding around an area would be able to see from a
distance whether the docking station has bikes and docks available.
The light would glow green if the there are both bikes and docks at
that station and red if the station is either empty or full. It might be
good to have an additional color, such as amber. This would allow for
all statuses to be displayed (full, empty or otherwise). But, this
additional information might be confusing and it might be best to keep
it simple. link Original Photo by *Bitch Cakes* on Flickr
152 Author in Residence
Garrett Buhl Robinson has been author in residence at the plaza in front of the Schwarzman library building for almost a year now. I asked him if he'd consider becoming Author in Residence and reading from his works for a day, at a Citibike Docking Station. He answered yes. I'll be posting a picture when this occurs.
The Poet from Alabama. Meet
Garrett Buhl Robinson and listen to his southern drawl read poetry that
might as well be music for the soul. He’s not Shakespeare but his
genius and passion for the word will move you the way any great poet
would. The man who hopped on a coal train and hitchhiked around the
country tells his story and brings to life what many people would envy,
the freedom to write with no holes barred. link
Update sept 23, 2013 As mentioned above Garrett Buhl Robinson became author in residence at the Mid-Manhattan Mibrary biklet on Parking day, Sept 20, 2013
153 Make A Movie
This one is titled:CitiBikes are a Pain in the Ass
154 Hold a convention of Superheroes & Sesame Street Characters
201 Create a informal communications and design system
Janette Sadik-Khan said the following about turning back seats to signify a problem with a bike(item 27) ...
"It is something that's done in other cities," said NYC Department of
Transportation commissioner . "It's part of the lore
that's getting passed along. We think it's helpful when New Yorkers help
us manage the system better...and if New Yorkers can help pinpoint the
problem, so much the better." link
There are at least 2 ways Citibike kiosks are "designed" , the top
down formal one from the people who control a project and the bottom up
informal one created by the users. This document is meant, among
other things, to record and retransmit some of the informal/crowd
sourced ideas that are occurring at the Citibike kiosks. If you have a
Citibike kiosk use tips that you'd like to share email it to :
wtgichelsea (..at..) yahoo.com
If you have advice on Bikeshare to share... With bike share beginning in NYC, potentially thousands of people
will be biking New York who haven't ever done so before. They need
advice. Let's give them some. Listen to some tips -- and upload your own
-- inside.
202The Whole is More Than the Sum of Its Parks Some city planners would like to use parklets more assertively. “So far
each one has been something in and of itself, but we’re beginning to
think about their potential as tools for larger change,” says David
Alumbaugh, who directs the department’s City Design Group, which
includes the parklets team. He contemplates using a series of parklets
as a way to pull people into neighborhoods that otherwise might be
avoided by outsiders, or concentrating them in such a way as to form a
sort of traffic-calming system: “There might be ways to tie several of
these spaces together…. A few years ago, any proposal to do something in
the street was met with such resistance. Now that they’re popular, it’s
‘Why not do more?’” link
Transformed to a park, one Citibike Kiosk adds little to the City's open
space needs. taken together and combined with an areas other open space
entities they have the power to transform a area from a neighborhood to
a park.
There are about
-20 City parks in and around Chelsea
-28 Secret parks
-40 Citibenches
-5 Plazas
The bikes on this map are Chelsea's Citibike stations. There are
over 25 of them scattered throughout Chelsea. DOT's goal has been to
place these stations within 1000 feet of each other. By transforming
these spaces to parklets and adding them to Chelsea's existing public
outdoor seating, it will go a long way to meeting the criteria
mentioned above in A Pattern Language of a park within a 3 minute walk of all residents
As mentioned before seating is the most common use of parks. So each entity will have seating. Other functionality can be scattered among kiosks, some may have reading rooms, other games tables, still others art exhibitions.or gardens What will occur at any bike kiosk parklet will be based on what block residents want it to be for their block, but together these small parklets will tie together to form a larger park for the community they are in.
Some Examples of Transforming Existing Outdoor Space into Seating Space
Here's some folks who are re imagining sidewalk sheds to seating and eating locations.
photo Copyright Softwalks
The Softwalks design fold up when not in use
eating at a sidewalk shed with a Softwalks counter installed
Softwalks
adds functionality to sidewalk sheds, could a modified version add
seating to Citibike stations? Would a folding seat at the docks be
better than a fixed seat? link
Here's West 77th Street and Columbus Ave, before and after it was transformed into a seating area
Before
After
Fire hydrant Seat Design
Here
are two fire hydrant seat designs. The first a petal design, gives
people a place to pause or rest on. It is similar in function to the
pedistrian use that is currently made of Citibike kiosks
The Petal concept allows those with limited mobility to take a leaning rest on a fire hydrant
The "Petal" seating concept
recognizes the fact that those with limited mobility often need a place
to pause or rest. This simple analog solution integrates a fire hydrant
with a seat, effectively using existing infrastructure without affecting
its functionality..link
The Second design actually allows people to sit on the hydrant.
Fire
hydrants. They’re red. They give firefighters access to water to put
out fires. Dogs pee on them. They work pretty good for what they’re
meant to do. But what about the offseason? What happens to lawn chairs
in the winter? They get put in the shed. What about fire hydrants when
there’s no fire? I know, let’s sit on it. Let’s sit on the fire hydrant.
But wait! It isn’t comfortable at all! What can be done? By jove I know what we can do, make it more sit-friendly! Designer
Xiaoman Wang observed in his area of residence the strange phenomenon of
people sitting on fire hydrants as seats. Everywhere XW looked, there
was someone resting their feet with a nice butt-to-hydrant sit.
The first phase of the Citibike program has the potential to add hundreds of parklets to NYC.
An enlarged Citibike system could go
from 10,000 to 49,000 bikes. If this occurs we'd go from 600 bike
stations to 3,000. If bike stations acted as seating/community spaces
that would be 3,000 throughout the city(and up to 3000 bioswales, and
community emergency hubs) .Add that to the 1500 Citibenches, and we're
talking 4500 "convenience store parks" throughout the city. . link
(not yet processed)Produce bicycles with their own built in dock
Dock
kiosks in NYC exist every 1000 feet or so and each dock holds a lot of
bikes. . What about a model that would put the dock electronics in the
bike, this would allow for less bikes per dock, and more dock locations.
(and less complaints that there are 40 docks blocking the front of my
building.). Here's viaCycle.
Sing Along Spot
Parklet Speaker Series
Treasure Hunt
display awards that are given for # of miles ridden (like lottery winners at stores)
a light signal that tells you if bikes are available from a block away
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/4-quirky-ideas-revolutionize-bike-sharing/4636/
This
is a somewhat low-tech solution, and is not a replacement for the
website or mobile apps. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the
maps by a user in the immediate vicinity of several docking stations.
Users walking or riding around an area would be able to see from a
distance whether the docking station has bikes and docks available.
link
