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.
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Tags: bike sharing software, CityRyde Spark, Recycles, Spark Software, University of Chicago
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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
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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/
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Tags: Amsterdam, Bike Share History, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, Documentary, Paris, Velib'
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Today the League of American Bicyclists announced that CityRyde was one of 45 businesses nationwide that has been awarded the title of Bicycle Friendly Business.
You can see the Press Release below:
The League of American Bicyclists to Announce
Fall 2009 Bicycle Friendly Businesses
Washington, DC – September 18, 2009 – The League of American Bicyclists will announce 45 new Bicycle Friendly Business award [...] View More...
Tags: Award, BFB, Bicycle Friendly Business, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, League of American Bicyclists
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Saturday, August the 8th, 2009 CityRyde welcomes passerbys at the NYC Summer Streets event a unique opportunity to learn more about the price-leading Samba system they are bringing into the US market alongside Power Sports Factory (collectively doing business as “Bike Share Source”). More on the initiative to come of course…
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Tags: bike share demo, bike share demonstration, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, Power Sports Factory, Samba
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The New York Times reported Friday that the government will continue accepting applications for its Cash for Clunkers program, despite the fact that rebates for the applications it has already received are expected to total the $1 billion is has allocated for the program. Formally known as the Car Allowance Rebate system, Cash for Clunkers [...] View More...
Tags: Cash for Clunkers, City Ride, CityRide, co2, fuel efficient
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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...
Tags: Bike Sharing, carbon credit, City Ride, CityRide, credits, energy, generator, hybrid, oyster
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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:
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Tags: Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide, Bike Share, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde Report, Feasibility Study, King Count Bike Share, King County, university of washington, Washington Bike Share
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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...
Tags: Capitol, Capitol Hill, City Ride, CityRide, Clear Channel, congress, House, Jack Kingston, SmartBike, Smartbike DC, Wheels4Wellness
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill in homage to its two Democratic co-founders, by a 219-212 vote. The bill is the first introduced by Congress to address the critical need for action steps reducing the nation’s emissions of [...] View More...
Tags: ACES, Bike Sharing Carbon Credits, cap-and-trade, carbon credits, City Ride, CityRide, Emissions Limits, oyster, Waxman-Markey, Waxman-Markey Bill
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