Monday, December 7th, 2009
…A question CityRyde is asked almost every week.
To this end, we have decided to provide our readers the following google map which shows every North American city we are aware of that has publicly expressed an interest for a 3rd generation bike share program. By publicly, we mean a city that has either:
Conducted and or [...] View More...
Tags: american bike sharing, Bike Sharing, bike sharing in america, City Ride, CityRide, north american cities interested in bike sharing, north american city bike share
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
CBC (Canadian Channel) has put together a documentary about the history of bike sharing in Amsterdam and Paris. The video below are just excerpts from the full video:
You can watch the entire video by following this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/pedalpower/
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Tags: Amsterdam, Bike Share History, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, Documentary, Paris, Velib'
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Bike sharing proved quite popular with Californians this past Sunday when the Los Angeles based Brandenburger Foundation, previously discussed here, brought 7 BIXI bikes to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Kiosks run by solar panels comprised the stations that accompanied the bikes. Hundreds of people participated in the demo, generating much excitement about the [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, Bike Sharing, BIXI, City Ride, CityRide, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The Boston Globe reported last Wednesday that the city’s bike share program is on track to debut next spring, calling it “the nation’s first citywide bike-sharing system.” Indeed, if all goes as planned, Boston will see the largest deployment in the States, aiming for 1,000 to 3,000 bicycles at stations 300 to 400 yards apart. [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, Bike Sharing, BikeNow, BIXI, Boston, City Ride, CityRide, Paris, Public Bike System, Velib', Veloway, Veoila
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
CityRyde offers all new customers a FREE 15 minute consultation with one of our bike sharing experts.
These weekly reservations to pick our brains fill up quickly, so be sure to book now! View More...
Tags: Bike Share, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, Learn, Learn about bike sharing
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Far from simply getting people out of their cars and onto bicycles, bike sharing is proving to become more sustainable than ever. Chiyu Chen, a student at the UK’s Royal College of Art, has designed a prototype of a European-style bike sharing system with one huge perk: the bikes store kinetic energy from braking that [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Sharing, carbon credit, City Ride, CityRide, credits, energy, generator, hybrid, oyster
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
BIXI is rolling quickly in both Montreal, elsewhere in Canada, and soon, in the United States. The program, run by Montreal’s parking authority, Stationnement de Montréal, debuted earlier this summer as North America’s largest third-generation bike-share system and intends to roll out its ambitious phase II in the coming weeks, adding 2,000 bikes and 100 [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, Bike Sharing, BIXI, California, City Ride, CityRide, Montreal, Newport Beach, Orange County, Ottawa, Vancouver
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
3 graduate students from the University of Washington were comissioned to put together a bike sharing feasibility study for King County in Washington state. CityRyde’s report, Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide: Selected Case Studies, was cited as an expert source in this report. CityRyde has embded the report for your review below:
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Tags: Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide, Bike Share, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde Report, Feasibility Study, King Count Bike Share, King County, university of washington, Washington Bike Share
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Portland, OR, considered the second-most bike friendly city in the world is once again in the market for a bike-share system. Though the city is not new to bike-sharing, it has yet to implement a successful program. Portland spearheaded the launch of a first generation program in the mid 1990s that ultimately failed, like many [...] View More...
Tags: advertising, Bike Share, Bike Sharing, Boulder, City Ride, CityRide, Denver, Oregon, Portland, Portland Bike Share, Portland Bike Sharing, vendors
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