Author: Ramona Goveas Dublin launched its own Bike Sharing DB last September 09. It now has over 40,000 subscribers to date. It recently came across its 1 millionth rental on the 14th of August, 2010. All this success is achieved in less than a year. Dublin City Council boasts that the program is “the most [...] View More...
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Minneapolis, Bixi looking forward to a Nice Ride
Saturday, January 30th, 2010It’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...
Insurance Giant Donates $1m to Minneapolis Bike Sharing
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Minneapolis’ 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...
Dublin bike share to deploy early fall despite revenue discrepancies
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009The long-awaited Dublin bike share system is finally set to debut mid-September, but not without the controversy that has tainted the program since French advertising giant JCDecaux and the Dublin city council signed contracts nearly three years ago. The Times newspaper of the UK reports that JCDecaux, the company also responsible for bringing Velib to [...] View More...
House’s Wheels4Wellness program likely to fold
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The Wheels4Welless program, which provides bicycles to congressional staff in the Capitol building for use during the workweek, has had half of its funding cut and appears as if it will face the guillotine sooner than later. Established in July of 2008 by the House Chief Administrative Office (CAO), Wheels4Wellness provides 30 bikes at 6 [...] View More...
SmartBike DC expansion halted due to contract debate
Friday, June 26th, 2009When your mother told you to pay close attention to the fine print before signing anything, despite how much you might have moaned and groaned, she couldn’t have been more right. This is particularly true in regard to the District of Columbia’s contract with advertising giant Clear Channel Outdoor. The media empire agreed to fund [...] View More...
BIXI moving towards an advertising model?
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009It 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...
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