My apartment building in the centre of Katowice has 250 parking spots for 750 apartments, but the parking takes up roughly 2/3 of the land, and the building occupies the remaining 1/3. Parking generates revenue. In an ideal world what should we do? Dig up the pavement, and plant fruit trees? In the real world what can I do? I am already asking for parking for #citybikes, and for private bikes.
#bancars

This is quite unlike Helsinki’s first city bike system 2000–2010, that was the same as in Copenhagen.

These were some cursed clunkers, plastic bearings in the hubs and massive rubber tires. You used them with a 2€ deposit, like a shopping cart.
Quite a few met an untimely end at the bottom of Helsinki’s many waterways.

#cycling #citybikes

I saw folks in yellow vests testing what I presume to be new candidate city bikes for Helsinki. Apparently the plan is to replace the successful ”Alepa” bikes when the 2026 season opens, a year from now. Some of the bikes were e-assist. Even considering ebikes has been criticised by some, but is popular e.g. in Madrid. Lahti also has ebikes.

Crappy photo, but would seem there are 8 candidates at this stage (you can see that C1 and C2 are different bikes).
#cycling #helsinki #citybikes

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Effectively the #OpenBikeSharing app is dead in #Hamburg since two years because the #CityBikes API in #PyBikes didn't handle the #CallABike API. That API now is declared broken since over a year.
https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/issues/125

Looks like this mess will never get fixed and the OpenBikeSharing app will stay completely useless in Hamburg and all other cities in Germany where Call-a-Bike operates?

https://openbikesharing.org/
https://citybik.es/
https://stadtrad.hamburg.de/

"Empty Slots" field for StadtRAD Hamburg is always 'null' · Issue #125 · eskerda/pybikes

Hi guys, I'm playing around with the data for the StadtRAD service Hamburg. Thanks for the API and such great data! Just a quick comment: it seems that the API returns for every station from th...

#citybikes has been updated. Minor bug fixes and app internationalization aka translations are here.
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