Since Bikeshare's demise, we've been exploring ways to promote bikesharing on a wider scale. The City has committed to bring bikesharing back to Toronto and we helped to keep the conversation alive with the Bikes as a Public Good: what is the future of public bikesharing in Toronto? Forum which took place September 18 at Innis Town Hall.

One hundred people came out to hear three speakers talk about different bikesharing programs with an eye to the possibilities for Toronto. The speakers were David Boyce from Veolia Transportation, Herb van den Dool of the Community Bicycle Network, and Alain Ayotte from Stationnement de Montreal (the organization that will be running Montreal's Bixi public bike system).

People were quite interested to learn more about the large scale bikesharing projects like Veloway and Bixi. Bixi will have 2400 bikes, 300 stations and a yearly fee of $80. They won't need any outside funding such as advertising as the costs will be covered by the user fees.