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...
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University of Chicago agrees to expand Spark Software for their bike sharing program
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Minneapolis, 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 new Bicycle Friendly Business award [...] 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...
King County Bike Share Report Released
Friday, July 17th, 20093 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, 2009The 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...
House passes climate change bill
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009On 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...
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