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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Velo-City Global Bicycle Conference 2010
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Author: Andrew DiMatteo From June 22nd to the 25th, Copenhagen hosted the 2010 Velo-City Bicycle Conference. Many major city representatives from different countries attended, as well as many major companies. This conference discussed several key topics essential to reducing carbon emissions from cars and the future of bike programs. Topics included: Mega-cities, campaigns for reducing [...] 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...
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...
Minneapolis, 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...
CityRyde wins Bicycle Friendly Business Award
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Today 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 [...] View More...
Cash for Clunkers continues despite initial sellout
Thursday, August 6th, 2009The 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...
Bike sharing that creates transferable energy
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Far 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...
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