Friday, July 23rd, 2010
The much anticipated London Cycle Hire bike-sharing program opens up to the city on July 30th, 2010. Barclays Bank sponsors this program. The Bank is giving a huge support in order to make sure this program is as well used as the Tube (subway), or bus systems in London. Roads have already been painted blue [...] View More...
Tags: Barcalys Bank Bike Sharing, London Bike Sharing, London Cycle Hire Scheme
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
San Antonio, TX is the next US city to approve a bike sharing deployment. The City Council has approved the Bike sharing program after seeing an increasing amount of bicycle usage in downtown. The initial program will consist of 140 bikes at 14 locations. “San Antonio is the perfect city to launch a bike share [...] View More...
Tags: Bcycle Bike Sharing, Bcycle San Antonio, San Antonio, San Antonio Bike Sharing, Texas Bicycles, Texas Bike Sharing
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The 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...
Tags: bean town, Bike Sharing, Boston, david watson, nicole freedman
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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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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Author(s): Andrew DiMatteo and Ramona Goveas This July, London will be introducing a new kind of highway to cyclists. The famous bank, Barclays Bank PLC, sponsors the new “Superhighway” for bicycles. Superhighways are new restricted lanes for cyclists in London. They are blue marked lanes, which clearly identify the route to motorists and cyclists. These [...] View More...
Tags: barclay, bicycle sharing, london bike share
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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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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
3rd Generation bike sharing first started in the US in Washington D.C. In 2010 Denver’s B-cycles launched bike sharing of more than 500 bikes and 50 stations. Minneapolis is the next city to host bike sharing, followed by Boston and others. In the West Coast of the US, Seattle has also taken initiative of starting [...] View More...
Tags: Bcycle, Denver Bike Share, Seattle, Seattle Department of Transportation, university of washington
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Authors: Ramona Goveas Today, Denver will be celebrating their Earth Day with the release of a new bike sharing system powered by B-cycle. This is the nation’s first large-scale citywide bike sharing system (we aren’t “counting” the SmartBike DC program). The program will include approximately 500 bikes and 50 stations all around the city. Denver [...] View More...
Tags: B-cycle, Bcycle, Bike GPS, Bike Sharing GPS, Colorado, Denver, Denver Bike Share, Denver Bike Sharing
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Gravity Cycles, a long-standing client of CityRyde, was recently awarded the contract to manage Boulder County, CO’s bike sharing deployment along the Diagonal Highway. The bike sharing system will be managed by CityRyde’s Spark software and will feature integration with low-cost wireless locking mechanisms and a slew of additional features making managing a bike sharing [...] View More...
Tags: bike sharing software, Boulder Bike Sharing, boulder co bike share, Boulder County Bike Sharing, Gravity Cycles, Spark
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