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University of Chicago agrees to expand Spark Software for their bike sharing program

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 response [...]  View More...

Minneapolis, Bixi looking forward to a Nice Ride

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...

Bike Sharing FAQs on YouTube

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

CityRyde has consistently been one of the first stops for people like yourself doing research on the topic of bike sharing which has allowed us to see trends on the most commonly asked questions.  We have created a YouTube channel that has very high level answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about bike [...]  View More...

What to do when public transportation fails

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...

A Documentary on Bike Sharing

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...

Boston bike share on track to debut spring 2010

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The Boston Globe reported last Wednesday that the city’s bike share program is on track to debut next spring, calling it “the nation’s first citywide bike-sharing system.”  Indeed, if all goes as planned, Boston will see the largest deployment in the States, aiming for 1,000 to 3,000 bicycles at stations 300 to 400 yards apart.  [...]  View More...

Bike sharing that creates transferable energy

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Far from simply getting people out of their cars and onto bicycles, bike sharing is proving to become more sustainable than ever.  Chiyu Chen, a student at the UK’s Royal College of Art, has designed a prototype of a European-style bike sharing system with one huge perk: the bikes store kinetic energy from braking that [...]  View More...

King County Bike Share Report Released

Friday, July 17th, 2009

3 graduate students from the University of Washington were comissioned to put together a bike sharing feasibility study for King County in Washington state. CityRyde’s report, Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide: Selected Case Studies, was cited as an expert source in this report. CityRyde has embded the report for your review below: var scribd_doc = [...]  View More...

House’s Wheels4Wellness program likely to fold

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The 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...

Broward County, FL Wants a Bike Share!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Looks like Broward County admired what Miami has been cooking up in terms of obtaining a bike share… Today the County just released an RFI with a response due by date of July 24th, 2009. Their proposed 100-200 bike deployment is expected to target the Downtown Fort Lauderdale or the Fort Lauderdale Beach area as well as the Deerfield [...]  View More...


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