Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Author: Timothy Lehman
Some say “good things happen to those who wait,” and for those interested in the Philadelphia bike share feasibility study this statement holds true. After over a year of waiting, bike share enthusiasts can feel good about the breaking release of the study. Just announced earlier today, the study has concluded that bike sharing is feasible [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share Philadelphia, Bike Sharing Feasibility Study, CityRyde, philadelphia bike share
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
In 2009, CityRyde launched Spark, the world’s first off-the-shelf software solution designed to manage bike sharing systems at universities, corporate campuses and small municipalities. Now, our newest software application built upon Spark’s infrastructure named Inspire has arrived! Inspire turns bike share rides into cash through carbon credits.
Inspire has been a work in progress by the CityRyde team over the [...] View More...
Tags: bike share software, bike sharing software, carbon offset credit, cityryde inspire, CityRyde Spark, transportation software
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Software, Blog, Carbon Emissions Reduction, CityRyde, carbon credit, carbon offset, oyster | No Comments »
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
As early as next week, China will reveal yet another PBS to its growing collection of bike sharing schemes already found in cities such as Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, among others. The most recent addition will debut in Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan province that is home to 11 million people and located roughly [...] View More...
Tags: Chengdu, China, PBS, Sichuan
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Post Original Author: Timothy Lehman
Famous for its scenic beauty, the City of Hangzhou lies in the Yangtze River Delta on the eastern coast of China. The city’s West Lake region is a very popular area for city dwellers and tourists to visit and sight-see. Yet until more recently, Hangzhou had become overpopulated with cars and other motor [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Share, china bike share, CityRide, CityRyde, hangzhou
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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
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Costs, Bike Sharing People, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, Public Transportation, Sustainable Transit | No Comments »
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, November 3rd, 2009
Special post just in from our experienced Australian Sales Representative, Malcolm Johnstone…
MELBURNIANS woke to the news this morning of radical changes in their public transport system. The much-talked-about bicycle revolution had entered another phase. Soon they learned they would be able to bike-share with the best of them. The State Government announced the awarding [...] View More...
Tags: Australia, australia bike share, australia bike sharing, australian, australian bike share, Bike Share, City Ride, CityRide, melbourne, melburnians, Public Bike System
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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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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Earlier this month, Korea deployed its second third-generation bike-share program in the city of Daejeon. Operated by the Victek company, the new scheme marks further environmental strides for the Asian nation, with already 200 bikes at 20 stations in place and plans for expansion scheduled to begin next month. Cyclists pay through the transit card [...] View More...
Tags: Changwon, City Ride, CityRide, Daejeon, Initus, Korea, NUBIJA, Seoul, Victek
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Minneapolis’ forthcoming bike-sharing scheme, entitled Nice Ride, has recently received more than a little financial help from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Last month, the nationwide insurance giant offered a donation of $1 million to help fund the third-generation program. The company puts such weighty financial resources behind programs such as Nice Ride [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Walk Twin Cities, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, City Ride, CityRide, insurance, Minneapolis, Nice Ride, St. Paul, University of Minnesota
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing - Universities, Bike Sharing Costs, Blog | 1 Comment »
