Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike Sharing

Bixi Bankruptcy: What Does It Mean for American Bike-Share?

By Ben Fried | Jan 21, 2014 | No Comments

The Montreal-based equipment supplier for several American bike-share systems, including New York’s Citi Bike and Chicago’s Divvy, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. It’s unclear exactly how the restructuring or sale of the company known as Bixi will play out, but the bankruptcy filing could accelerate the transition to more robust and reliable hardware and software. […]

How Do You Grade a Bike-Share System?

By Katie Pearce | Dec 6, 2013 | 1 Comment

Bike-share has exploded in the last decade — and in North America, just in the last few years. What started as a shaky concept in Amsterdam in the 1960s has matured into a viable transit option worldwide, with 600 systems offering more than 600,000 bikes. The nonprofit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is […]

Despite Texas DOT’s Shenanigans, El Paso Will Go Ahead With Bike-Share

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

El Paso bike-share is moving forward, despite Texas DOT’s attempt to kill the whole project. That’s the word today from a state representative in El Paso on the latest development in the city’s proposal for a 200-bike system. The city of El Paso lined up approval and $2 million in federal and local funds to […]

Does Texas DOT Have the Authority to Kill Bike-Share in El Paso?

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2013 | 14 Comments

Just a few weeks ago, El Paso was all ready to go with a new bike-share network, or so it seemed. The city had lined up $400,000 in local funds from the city of El Paso, the University of Texas at El Paso and a grant from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The regional planning […]

The American Bike-Share Fleet Has Doubled Since January

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 30, 2013 | 7 Comments

This has been an epic year for bike-share in America. According to a report from the Earth Policy Institute, the opening of Bay Area Bike Share yesterday brought the cumulative size of the bike-share fleets in U.S. cities to 18,000 bikes, more than twice what it was at the beginning of 2013. There are now […]

Highway-Happy Texas DOT Says El Paso Bike-Share Isn’t Eco Enough

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 16, 2013 | 7 Comments

The same state department of transportation that is eagerly pursuing a $5.2 billion third outerbelt for Houston yanked $1.6 million from the city of El Paso this week out of concern that the city’s bike-share plans were not “the most efficient ways to address air quality with limited funding.” According to the El Paso Times, the […]

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