Item - 2020.EX14.10

The Executive Committee recommends that:

1. City Council request the Toronto Parking Authority Board of Directors to direct the President, Toronto Parking Authority to release immediately, on a monthly basis in a suitable data format,all relevant ridership information for Bike Share Toronto  to the Toronto Open Data Portal. Each dataset to include:

a. trip duration (seconds)all;

b. start and end date and time;
c. start and end station name, ID, latitude, longitude;
d. bike identification number
e. user type (“Customer” = 24-hour or 7-day pass user; “Subscriber” = annual member);
f. gender (0=unknown; 1=male; 2=female)
g. year of birth; and

h. datasets include only trips taken by customers from publicly available stations that are longer than 60 seconds in duration.

2. City Council request the City Manager to work with the appropriate City Officials to develop compliance standards to ensure that Open Data sets are made available on a basis consistent with the City's established policy and report back to the Executive Committee no later than the third quarter of 2020.

3. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to report to the Executive Committee no later than the first quarter of 2021 on the use of the bike storage facility at Toronto City Hall. 

City Council on January 29, 2020, referred Administrative Inquiry IA14.2 from Councillor Paul Ainslie, Ward 24, Scarborough-Guildwood regarding Open Data-Cycling and Infrastructure Program - Bike Share Ridership, and Answer IA14.2a from the Acting President, Toronto Parking Authority, to the Executive Committee for consideration.