Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
London launched the Barclay’s CycleHire bike-sharing program in July 2010. With 6,000 bikes and 400 stations. The program has been booming ever since the launch with 350,000 journeys in the inaugural month, and more than 70,000 members. The bicycles are peddling throughout London with the new design created by the same creators, DeVinci Cycles, which [...] View More...
Tags: Barclay Cycle Hire, london bike share
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
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...
Tags: Dublin Bike Share
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
CityRyde announces today that the University of Colorado at Boulder has chosen CityRyde’s Spark software to manage their Buff Bikes program which currently has 160 bicycles located at a central hub on campus. The bicycles are available free to students, faculty and staff of the University for up to 48 hours. The University has chosen [...] View More...
Tags: bike sharing software, CityRyde Spark, University Bike Sharing, University of Colorado at Boulder
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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 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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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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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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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Google recently announced the addition of a brand new feature to Google Maps-Google Biking Directions. This new feature is groundbreaking and allows bikers to decide upon the best possible route for their journey. The feature includes 15,000 miles of off-street bike routes that will make it much easier and safer for riders that bike unfamiliar areas. The maps [...] View More...
Tags: CityRyde Directions, Google Bicycle Sharing, Google Biking, Google Maps
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Author: Timothy Lehman Bike Sharing systems have become a growing trend on college and university campuses alike. As the world continues the push to become more sustainable, students and faculty of many institutions have joined the green movement by launching bike share systems for their campuses. In this post, we’ll take a look at the progression [...] View More...
Tags: Bike Sharing, bike sharing software, Campus Bike Sharing, CityRyde Spark, college bike share, Drexel Bike Share, St. Xavier University, University Bike Sharing
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
CityRyde and the University of Chicago, after a successful pilot program, have agreed to expand the functionality of CityRyde’s Spark software that is used to manage the University’s bike sharing program – ReCycles. Currently the system is managing 20 bicycles and had 400+ registered users during the pilot period. Spark was launched late last year in [...] View More...
Tags: bike sharing software, CityRyde Spark, Recycles, Spark Software, University of Chicago
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