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A bot for watching a Signal messenger group, and sharing bikeshare pin codes for those who ask.
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DIY charging stations for city's e-bikes #22

Open patcon opened 3 years ago

patcon commented 3 years ago

Charging stations are currently all concentrated in one area of the city (near the subway loop).

curl https://toronto-us.publicbikesystem.net/customer/gbfs/v2/en/station_status | jq '.data.stations[] | select(.is_charging_station == true) | .station_id'
>>> "7385"
>>> "7657"
>>> "7668"

Which are:

curl https://toronto-us.publicbikesystem.net/customer/gbfs/v2/en/station_information | jq '.data.stations[] | select(.station_id | index("7385", "7657", "7668")) | .address'
>>> "20 Charles St E"
>>> "1 Market St"
>>> "Simcoe St / Dundas St W"
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So e-bikes that end up in other parts of the city will have to be charged over night by the bikeshare field team (ref). Any bike below 20% charge will not be able to be checked out.

Wondering how someone might create a DIY charger to allow people to charge e-bikes without waiting for the city to bring charging stations to their neighbourhood...