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  • Brilliant. I tried it out last Spring when it started out and I ended up compulsively using it to make little treks across downtown over the summer. Strangely, I didn't get the annual membership because I was planning on traveling for a few months. And yet the $5 for 24 hours of use was still *cheaper* than a round trip using the TTC, which would be $3 x 2 (cash fare). It's awesome to see BIXI spreading like wildfire to other cities across North America, including New York, Boston and DC. Kudos to BIXI and kudos to the City of Montreal for investing in this brilliant concept (Montreal mismanagement aside). Having said all that, it must be said that riders **MUST READ the instructions carefully** to understand how the fee structure works. Many new riders fume when they rent a bike over 30 minutes and get charged higher fees than they thought they signed up for. The BIXI system is designed to promote short trips between docking stations. So in place of driving or jumping on a bus or streetcar for $3 for a short trip across downtown, one might choose to jump on a BIXI bike to save money and get some exercise. **But** the fee structure is meant to discourage long meandering day tours through city. After all, the bikes have to continuously recirculate within the BIXI network. So as long as you keep a single trip at 30 minutes or less between docking points, you will not have to pay anything over the initial fee. But over the 30 minutes and the meter starts running, like a taxi cab. So again, read the instructions!! I don't think they company intends to rip people off, it's kinda hard to make this kind of thing work if you think about it. I think the BIXI system is ingenious. It is almost essential, to have a smartphone with a data plan and one of the BIXI bike apps. I've used Spotcycle and it works great. It shows a live Google map of all the stations annotated with how many bikes and how empty docking stations are available at each. The toronto.bixi.com website also provides the same map and information.
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