Monday, June 21st, 2010
Melbourne is the first city in Australia to make transportation even more convenient for its residents. Melbourne has decided to create a bike sharing system called the Melbourne Bike Share. This will contribute to a safer, greener and faster transport system for the public. The plan is to construct 50 stations throughout the city. Using [...] View More...
Tags: BIXI, Melbourne Bicycle Sharing, Melbourne Bike Share, Melbourne Bikes
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Author: Andrew DiMatteo Today bicyclists take to the streets to test the new bike sharing program Minneapolis has to offer. The program, Nice Ride, offers users green bicycles at 60 specially marked stations all around the city. To rent a bicycle all you have to do is sign up on the website. You can register [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, BIXI, Minneapolis bike share, Nice Ride
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
For the first time in the US, a 3rd generation bike sharing deployment is receiving a “makeover”. Smartbike DC, which was finance and operated by Clear Channel, was America’s first bike sharing deployment with just over 120 bicycles and 10 stations. As CityRyde had previously reported, there were contract disputes over the expansion of the [...] View More...
Tags: Add new tag, Arlington Virginia, BIXI, Smartbike DC, Washington DC
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
It’s official. Nice Ride Minnesota, Bixi and the city of Minneapolis are launching their own bike share program. This system will be the nation’s first large scale non-profit bike sharing deployment, and this is a pretty big deal in US bike share circles. The Minneapolis portion of the Twin cities received the necessary key approval [...] View More...
Tags: BIXI, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nice Ride
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Dublinbikes, that bike sharing program operated by JCDecaux in Dublin, Ireland, recently announced that it will be expanding the system due to the huge popularity of the system. Dublinbikes launched about a month, after a long wait, to a huge success. According to the Irish Times, more than 16,000 people have signed up for the bike share [...] View More...
Tags: BIXI, Canada, City Ride, CityRide, Dublin, Dublin Bike Share, Dublinbikes, Ireland, JCDecuax, Montreal
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The hugely popular Bixi system announced today that since their launch 4 months ago, they have signed-up over 10,000 subscribers (10,297 to be exact), 103,289 one time users (I am one of them!) and 654,986 trips. In addition to that the accelerated Phase II deployment has been launch in 8 districts already way ahead of the original [...] View More...
Tags: BIXI, City Ride, CityRide, Montreal
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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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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, June 12th, 2009
In an interesting online editorial entitled Ten Ideas for Improving the BIXI, Francis Cardinal presents the following “pain” and corresponding “solution” in regards to the BIXI bike share program consisting of 500 bikes just recently launched in Montreal, CA: The Pain – “Travel. A user of the website Twitter told they had to visit nine [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, bike share software, Bike Sharing, BIXI, City Ride, CityRide, fleet availability, Montreal, oyster
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