How is Mayor Gregor Robertson going to make bike-sharing work in Vancouver, when programs have failed in other cities? That’s what CKNW Dave Pratt asked him on Sportstalk Thursday evening.
Robertson says more than 300 cities have bike-share programs.
Robertson: “Almost all of them that I’ve looked at, some of them that I’ve tried are successful, by any measure.”
Pratt: “They all lose money. Every single one of them has to be subsidized. They all lose money. That’s a failure.”
Robertson: “Every single street that you drive on loses money, every single sidewalk that you walk on loses money, every bus that you ride on, rapid transit, loses money.”
Robertson goes on to say the transportation system costs money, so leaders need to make smart investments, such as the bike-share program.
He adds Vancouver has the infrastructure to make bike-sharing work.
The program will bring in 15-hundred bikes at a cost of 2-million dollars.
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