I think I will hold on in membership until it expands to Eglinton, as a Midtown resident.
As usual, my opinion is worth what you paid for it. The Crosstown is still (*sigh*) four years in the future and putting bike depots at those stations would be consistent with the expansion of 2016.
But it's a much different prospect and I want to say, "I doubt it" or "Much more dubious prospect."
1. Four years to go, so first priority should be westward to Roncesvalles and along the Lakeshore West. If they are brave, then into the Bloor West Village.
2. Second - easterly along Lakeshore East, Dundas East, and Gerrard.
3. East/West in the city - downtown at least - is an easy ride - no major hills. It's also an easy ride (way) farther north - like Sheppard. Mid-town - St Clair and Eglinton - you have to (somehow) get over the Don Valley and this involves discontinuous streets and hills.
4. This works downtown. Where (a lot of) young people live. Whether this works in older less dense neighbourhoods along Eglinton is a much more iffy prospect.
5. Going north and sough north of Bloor / Danforth involves some significant hills on some routes. This makes the ride harder and more dangerous as I can't see people (casusal riders) coasting safely - for example - down Avenue Hill or Yonge Street. Sure the traffic is busy in the downtown, but the ride is mostly flat.
6. If there are depots at Crosstown stations, I wonder if a lot of the traffic will be local and east - west along Eglinton to avoid the hills and the issues that I speculated about above.
My two cents for a Sunday morning.
I think you are spot on in your analysis of Eglinton.
There is actually considerable existing (and probably latent) demand for local east-west travel on the Eglinton corridor. Eglinton already has many cyclists, and the adjacent streets Soudan and Roehampton/Broadway also receive many more who refuse to cycle along Eglinton due to it being unsafe (and currently clogged with construction - another reason why maybe we should hold off with expanding to Eglinton too soon). My prediction is that once the Crosstown is complete and Eglinton Connects has added separated cycling lanes along the entire stretch of Eglinton, that the corridor will be a highly used one for cyclists in general, but also for Bixi.
I wonder how Bixi will be able to expand north of Bloor. The issue is that if they expand along the Yonge corridor north for instance, there wouldn't be anywhere to park your Bixi bike once you reached your destination outside the vicinity of Yonge Street.
Maybe expansion northwards should be akin to a wave gradually creeping north, based on customer demand. They've already reached the Annex and Seaton village. Fill out the areas west in Davenport, Bloor West and the Junction, before creeping up to St. Clair, then onto Deer Park, Forest Hill, Earlscourt and Davisville.
I feel like this approach will eventualy become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as when coverage expands to meet demand, it creates more demand, which in turn pushes the city to create more cycling infrastructure, which increases the attractiveness of the cycling mode, which then incentives Bixi to expand coverage to meet demand.