San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share opened for business on August 29, 2014. I’m looking into the usage data over the past year and I’ll give my perspectives on what I find about usage in the South Bay.
![Bike Share launch passing through SJSU campus](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/9625589722_7f99d9e4ce.jpg)
Bay Area Bike Share (BABS) is the regional bike share system for the cities of San Francisco, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Jose. Something like 90% of trips have been logged in San Francisco, which has 50% of stations. Pili Mayora used the open data provided by BABS to create a video showing the most popular routes in San Francisco for each hour of the day.
My membership in BABS comes up for renewal on 8/29. Over the past year, I’ve used BABS 50 times. With my annual membership, that works out to about a buck and a half per rental. Most trips took place in San Jose, with a single rental in San Francisco along the Embarcadero.
Are you a BABS member, or have you used Bay Area Bike Share? What’s your experience?