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...
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Dublin Bike Share Success Story
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Author: 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...
University of Colorado at Boulder to use CityRyde’s Spark Software
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010CityRyde 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...
Boston Bike Share Receives Federal Dollars
Sunday, July 11th, 2010The 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...
Seattle to take initiative in bike sharing
Tuesday, May 11th, 20103rd 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...
CityRyde’s Spark Software to Power Boulder County, CO’s Bike Sharing System
Monday, April 12th, 2010Gravity 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...
Google Announces Google Biking Directions
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Google 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...
Progression of College Bike Sharing
Friday, March 12th, 2010Author: 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...
University of Chicago agrees to expand Spark Software for their bike sharing program
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010CityRyde 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...
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