Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike Sharing

Will Seattle’s Helmet Law Be a Drag on Its New Bike-Share System?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 24, 2014 | 19 Comments

In what will likely be the largest bike-share expansion in the U.S. this year, Seattle’s Pronto launched last week with 500 bikes. Local media is reporting the system hosted about 4,000 rides its first week. That’s generally seen as a positive sign, about in line with what DC’s successful Capital Bikeshare’s early totals. But this […]

Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation. Just over a year ago, the city launched MetroBus BRT (constructed in less than seven months) on 9 de Julio Avenue, which may be the world’s widest street. The transformation of four general […]

The Citi Bike Deal Is Great News for Other Cities Too

By Ben Fried | Jul 25, 2014 | No Comments

Andrew Tangel at the Wall Street Journal had an encouraging update this week on the Citi Bike buyout plan first reported by Dana Rubinstein in Capital New York. It looks like the city is days away from announcing a deal in which REQX Ventures, an affiliate of the Related Companies and its Equinox unit, will […]

Alta Chief: Bike-Share Expansions Unlikely in 2014

By Payton Chung | Jul 17, 2014 | 19 Comments

Despite continually growing ridership, Alta Bicycle Share-operated bike-share systems across America will probably not be adding bikes or docks this year. The bankruptcy of Montreal-based Public Bike Share Company, known as Bixi, which developed and manufactured the equipment that Alta’s systems use, has disrupted the supply chain that numerous cities were pinning their expansion plans […]

Safety in Bike-Share: Why Do Public Bikes Reduce Risk for All Cyclists?

By Peter Jacobsen and Charles Komanoff | Jul 8, 2014 | 13 Comments

What if Yankees legend Yogi Berra had followed a season with 24 homers and 144 hits with one featuring 27 homers and 189 hits? Would the baseball scribes have declared “Yogi Power Shortage” because only one in seven hits was a homer instead of one in six? Duh, no. The headlines would have read, “Yogi […]

Paris Vélib’ Launches Bike-Share for Kids

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 1, 2014 | 1 Comment

While in the U.S., bike-share systems are issuing threatening letters to parents who invent ways to tote their kids along, Paris is pioneering bike-share for the under-10 set. As far as we know, P’tit Vélib’ is the first of its kind in the world. In June, Vélib’ made 300 kids’ bikes available in five locations near parks […]

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