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DSC said:
While I agree that hiring outsiders (consultants) to do regular ongoing jobs is not the way to go, it is (at least in part) the result of the uproar there always is when the City's own staff numbers increase. Hiring a consultant to do something that needs to be done often and 'for ever' is clearly stupid; hiring a consultant to carry out a specialised task that only happens occasionally is not.
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I agree w/the sentiment DSC........

But I've witnessed too many consultants hired to do work that doesn't need to be done; to generate reports that answer questions City staff already know the answer to; and which are also used as a way to kick real spending and/or controversial decisions down the road.

In the context of this particular item, I confess to finding it difficult to understand why one would require a consultant when Bikeshare has picked its own locations since its inception, and when the mandate is now City-wide coverage.

Psst, Bikeshare also picked its own list of spots this year before the consultant contract even went out.......
 
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I don't know how many of you are familiar w/the new Bikeshare Toronto 'Superstation' concept.

But they have launched two of them with two more coming soon.

This is the description:

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These are the locations:

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Northern Light said:
I don't know how many of you are familiar w/the new Bikeshare Toronto 'Superstation' concept.

But they have launched two of them with two more coming soon.

This is the description:

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These are the locations:

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They should also change this seasonally because Cherry Beach and Tommy Thompson could really use one.

From the description it sounds like a Bike Share employee with a truck full of bikes will be attending the station, if so it seems like a flexible way to adjust for special demand.
 
daptive said:
They should also change this seasonally because Cherry Beach and Tommy Thompson could really use one.

From the description it sounds like a Bike Share employee with a truck full of bikes will be attending the station, if so it seems like a flexible way to adjust for special demand.
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They also do this at events like TFC games, etc. where there is a lot of one way demand.
 
Maybe they haven't branded them as "super stations" before, but the ones at Bay and King, which get a lot of one-way rush hour demand, have long had people at them pulling bikes off the docks in the morning and restocking them in the evening.
 
They have had staffed stations on some weekends over the summer. It just involves a ton of extra bikes on standby, tethered together with a cable. The staffer can unlock bikes from the dock and add them to the tethered group and vice versa.
 
Two more new Bike Stations today, so far......

These are numbers #621 and #622 for the system.

St. Clair/Caledonia (in front of the Community Rec. Ctr)
St. Clair/Oakwood
 
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Station update from last week's Bike Share newsletter. Northern Light has mentioned the new stations already, but note the conversion of some existing stations to e-bike charging stations + the new ones to come.

March Station Updates​


Installed:
  • Mutual St & Shuter Ave (Arena Gardens) Station
  • Victoria Park Ave & Dawes Rd Station
  • Queen St E & Joseph Duggan Rd Station
Installed E-Stations:
  • 85 Lee Ave Station
  • 1 Market St Station
  • Simcoe St & Dundas St W Station
  • 20 Charles St E Station
  • 25 Booth Ave Station
  • 20 Eaton Ave Station
Upcoming E-Stations:
  • 111 Broadview Station
  • Jarvis St & Richmond St E Station
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