By: Andrew DiMatteo The new Social Bicycle System, SoBi, brings a whole new aspect to bike sharing by eliminating the idea of a station only systems. Users can now dock bicycles on any regular bike rack within the restricted riding area. This revolutionary system is made possible by the bicycles attached lock system and built [...] View More...
Bike Sharing
Boston Bike Share Receives Federal Dollars
Sunday, July 11th, 2010The Boston Globe reported last Friday that the federal government has awarded $3 million to Boston’s forthcoming bike share program, which is expected to cover the capital costs of the apx. 500-bike, Bixi deployment next Spring. So… “next spring” huh? We have heard that before as CityRyde previously reported in our last blog post on the subject. [...] View More...
Toyama and JcDecaux’s Cyclocity Introduce Bike Sharing to Japan
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010The Japanese city of Toyama recently launched Japan’s first full scale bicycle sharing system on Saturday. Like many others, Toyama’s bike sharing system was established in hopes of lowering traffic congestion on many busy highways while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The system was launched by Cyclocity, Inc. a subsidiary of the French advertising giant, JCDecaux. Cyclocity will [...] View More...
Progression of College Bike Sharing
Friday, March 12th, 2010Author: Timothy Lehman Bike Sharing systems have become a growing trend on college and university campuses alike. As the world continues the push to become more sustainable, students and faculty of many institutions have joined the green movement by launching bike share systems for their campuses. In this post, we’ll take a look at the progression [...] View More...
North American Cities Seeking a Bike Share
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 [...] View More...
Boston bike share on track to debut spring 2010
Thursday, August 6th, 2009The 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...
FREE Bike Sharing Consultation
Monday, August 3rd, 2009CityRyde 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...
Bike sharing that creates transferable energy
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Far 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...
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