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 »
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Recently the city of Philadelphia, where CityRyde is headquartered, experienced a six day long strike by the local transit authority, SEPTA. Subways and buses stopped operating only hours before the Monday morning rush hour leaving workers scrambling for alternative modes of transportation to get to the office. The strike also left many school aged children [...] View More...
Tags: Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Bike the Strike, City Ride, CityRide, Paris, Philadlephia, Samba, SEPTA, Timothy Ericson, Transit Strike, Velib'
Posted in Bike Legislation, Bike Sharing Event, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, Cityryde Press, Public Transportation, bike share demonstration | No Comments »
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
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog | No Comments »
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
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, bike share demonstration | No Comments »
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
CityRyde is pleased to announce its participation in assisting Bike Share Source’s first North American bike share demonstration of its solar powered bike share system during Philadelphia’s Fourth Annual Fall Festival, October 3rd, 2009 from 12-8PM at lot “C16″ on 13th St. (right between Walnut and Sansom St.), Philadelphia, PA 19104. The festival will encompass [...] View More...
Tags: bike share demo, bike share demonstration, bike share source, bike sharing demonstration, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, fall fest, Philadelphia, philadelphia bicycle sharing, philadelphia fall fest, Power Sports Factory
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, bike share demonstration | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
CBC (Canadian Channel) has put together a documentary about the history of bike sharing in Amsterdam and Paris. The video below are just excerpts from the full video:
You can watch the entire video by following this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/pedalpower/
[Translate]
View More...
Tags: Amsterdam, Bike Share History, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, Documentary, Paris, Velib'
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, Public Transportation, Sustainable Transit | No Comments »
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
Posted in Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog | No Comments »
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
After months upon months of careful planning, JCDecaux finally rolled out its latest European bike share scheme. This past Sunday, crowds of anxious Dubliners left their cars at home and instead took to the streets via the two-wheeled cycles so familiar in Paris, Lyon, and elsewhere on the continent. With 450 bikes at 40 [...] View More...
Tags: City Ride, CityRide, Dublin, Dublinbikes, Irish, JcDecaux, Lyon, Paris, Velib'
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Event, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog | No Comments »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A recent article written about CityRyde:
Keystone Edge, 9/3/2009
Timothy Ericson and Jason Meinzer were rooming in London in the summer of 2007 when Ericson took a weekend [...] View More...
Tags: City Ride, CityRide
Posted in Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, Carbon Emissions Reduction, CityRyde, Cityryde Press, carbon credit, carbon offset | No Comments »
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
BikeShareSource.com brings you Samba!
[Translate]
View More...
Tags: bike share source, bikesharesource, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, Samba
Posted in 3rd Generation Bike Share, Bike Sharing Vendor, Blog, CityRyde | No Comments »
