Baiku — what's on in Milwaukee, and how to get there without a car
Install Baiku: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Local Picks
Happening
A hand-checked snapshot from Aug 2 2026, not a live feed.
Recurring times change — confirm with the venue before you go.
Today's Baiku
Baiku — bike + haiku. Milwaukee, in seventeen syllables.
Baiku™
Made to Move Your City
Free. No ads. Minimal analytics: anonymous, cookieless visit counts, never people, routes or places. Live data kept honest at baiku.org. About Baiku · Why I built it · Terms.
Designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. Automated axe-core testing found zero detected violations across every view on Aug 5 2026, apart from the target-size exception map pins and inline links carry. Keyboard, focus, contrast and reduced-motion behavior were reviewed by hand. Supported by Access For Everyone.
Designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. Automated axe-core testing found zero detected violations across every view on Aug 5 2026, apart from the target-size exception map pins and inline links carry. Keyboard, focus, contrast and reduced-motion behavior were reviewed by hand. Supported by Access For Everyone.
Baiku™ · Built in Wisconsin.
v1.30 · 20260807-1020
v1.30 · 20260807-1020
Milwaukee
Explore
The whole calendar
Why the list is this long
Local Picks
Shops & repair
Report a hazard
Bridge lifts
Nothing to show — and that's the point
A raised lift bridge shuts down biking, scooting and walking at once, and no
routing app on earth knows it happened. Milwaukee has many across three rivers. There is no feed
and no registry anywhere. This is the one dataset Baiku intends to create rather than collect.
Trails & long rides
Today's Baiku
Baiku — bike + haiku. Milwaukee, in seventeen syllables.
Baiku™
Made to Move Your City
Free. No ads. Minimal analytics: anonymous, cookieless visit counts, never people, routes or places. Live data kept honest at baiku.org. About Baiku · Why I built it · Terms.
Designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. Automated axe-core testing found zero detected violations across every view on Aug 5 2026, apart from the target-size exception map pins and inline links carry. Keyboard, focus, contrast and reduced-motion behavior were reviewed by hand. Supported by Access For Everyone.
Designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. Automated axe-core testing found zero detected violations across every view on Aug 5 2026, apart from the target-size exception map pins and inline links carry. Keyboard, focus, contrast and reduced-motion behavior were reviewed by hand. Supported by Access For Everyone.
Here to there
Pick a destination
Getting home
The hard half
Getting to a show is easy. Getting home at 11:40 is when Bublr thins out
and buses go hourly. Your late-night options, honestly ranked:
Check the bus firstSome MCTS routes run late. A scheduled bus beats a surge price.
Uber or LyftThe honest answer when nothing else is running. No shame in it; that is what they are for at midnight.
Two feetUnder a mile on lit streets, walking is often fastest. Stick to main streets, stay visible, and trust your gut. Just be safe.
Live route matching isn't built yet, so Baiku can't verify tonight's last departure. Check the MCTS app before relying on a late bus.
About these numbers
Every number in Baiku is live from the operator, published by the source, or clearly labeled an estimate. Bike data is live. Bus, streetcar and scooter integrations are built and appear as their relays come online. Travel times are estimates from assumed speeds, marked
~ when the distance was estimated too. The source-by-source detail lives in the fine print.Live
Map
Rider since 2026
You
What Baiku is
Baiku answers two questions in any city: what is on, and
how do I get there without a car. It puts the ways of getting around side by side
for one specific trip, using whatever the operators actually publish.
In Milwaukee, today, that means live Bublr
bikes and docks, live MCTS buses and The Hop, walking and trail times measured along real
streets, the weather on your heading, and a hand-checked calendar of what is on. Where a
number is an estimate it says so, and where a feed is off it says that too.
All of it is built around three questions:
1Where can I go?
2How should I get there?
3What is happening when I arrive?
Where it is going
The aim is a tool that does this for any city and does more of it:
parking, accessibility information, safety alerts, more modes and more operators, adapted
to how each city actually moves. Getting there takes partnerships and civic support, not
just code, so read that as an ambition rather than a promise. This card will keep saying
which is which.
Rather than replacing local organizations or competing with
transportation providers, Baiku connects their information and makes it easier for residents
and visitors to decide where to go and how to get there.
Here is to a safe, wonderful ride.
Green lights and blue skies.
Green lights and blue skies.
City
MilwaukeeBublr live. MCTS, The Hop and Spin built, awaiting relay. Events and trails hand-checked Aug 2 2026
Partly liveModular travel
WalkEvery trip starts and ends here
LiveBike & e-bikeBublr, live stations and docks
LiveScooterSpin feed decoded, with per-vehicle charge — switches on when the relay deploys
BuiltBusMCTS realtime, decoded and ready — switches on when the relay deploys
BuiltStreetcar & railThe Hop feed is built, not yet switched on. Amtrak Hiawatha next
NextRideshareOnly for the ride home when nothing else is running
FallbackBaiku is not a bike app. It is a modular travel platform — every mode is a module, and a real
trip chains them together. Walk to the dock, ride to the stop, take the bus, walk the last block.
If one link breaks the whole trip fails, which is why Baiku tracks all of them at once.
What Baiku can measure today
Bike
Live. Every Bublr station, bikes and docks, every 60 seconds
Bus
Built, not yet switched on. MCTS GTFS-Realtime is decoded and ready; the relay that carries it is not deployed, so no positions, arrivals or alerts are shown
Streetcar
Built, not yet switched on. The Hop publishes route, stops and vehicle positions through its rider portal; the relay that carries them is not deployed
Distance
Real, measured along streets. Not a suggested route — it will not follow the Oak Leaf or the Riverwalk, so tap Directions for the actual way to ride
Travel time
Estimated. Distance ÷ an assumed speed
Scooter
Built, not yet switched on. The Spin feed is decoded and ready; the relay that carries it is not deployed. When last read on Aug 2 2026 no operator had vehicles on the street in Milwaukee
Charge
Real for Spin (% and range, per vehicle) once the relay is up. Bublr publishes none
Rideshare
Not affiliated, and paid nothing. Uber and Lyft are ranked below the bus and below walking, and only offered for the trip home when nothing else is running. Tapping one opens their own app with your destination filled in. No referral code
Search
OpenStreetMap. Baiku searches its own places, trails and events on this device first. Anything else is looked up in OpenStreetMap, bounded to the Milwaukee area — which means the text you type is sent to that service. Nothing else about you goes with it, and Baiku keeps no record of it
Bridge lifts
Nothing, anywhere. No feed exists
Analytics
Aggregate counts only: no cookies, no fingerprinting, no ad tech. We count visits and Go taps to learn whether Baiku is useful. No accounts, and your ride log never leaves this device. Baiku has no accounts and stores no location, route, search or trip history on its own backend — your ride log stays on this device. What does leave: the text you type goes to the OpenStreetMap geocoder, route end points go to OSRM, and an approximate position goes to Open-Meteo — each listed above.