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 stations [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, bike share software, Bike Sharing, BIXI, City Ride, CityRide, fleet availability, Montreal, oyster
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
CityRyde was able to confirm today that Astral Media Outdoors has been working directly with the City of Montreal and BIXI on placing advertisements at the BIXI stations. This was confirmed through a conversation with an account representative at Astral Media who has been actively selling the advertising space to clients. This sharply contradicts a [...] View More...
Tags: Astral Media, BIXI, BIXI Advertising, City Ride, CityRide, JcDecaux, Montreal, Timothy Ericson, Velib'
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
It appears that the largest bike sharing system in North America, BIXI, is moving to an advertising based model to support their operating costs after partnering with Astral Media Outdoors. According to their website “Astral Media Outdoor is proud to partner with BIXI to create this new green and sustainable urban advertising network. BIXI offers [...] View More...
Tags: Astral Media Outdoors, BIXI, BIXI Advertising, City Ride, CityRide, Montreal, North America Bike Sharing, Timothy Ericson
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Today all eyes in the bike sharing world have been turned on Montreal, Canada to see the launch of North America’s largest bike sharing system. According to a BIXI representative, there are more than 500 bicycles and 50 stations that are now activated while the system plans to have 3,000 bicycles and 300 stations launched [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Sharing, BIXI, Canada, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, Montreal, Smartbike DC, TIME Magazine, Velib'
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