American Bike-Share Is Growing Quickly — In a Handful of Cities
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Americans made 28 million trips on bike share last year. But the large majority of ridership comes from just a few large cities that have made major investments.
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Seattle Just Canned Its Bike-Share System. What Went Wrong?
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If Seattle is going to give bike-share another try, it will have to learn from this experience. The Pronto system started off small and never scaled up. And that mandatory helmet law really didn't help.
Study: D.C. Bike-Share Cut Neighborhood Congestion 4 Percent
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Researchers have released new findings that suggest a more consistent traffic-reduction impact than previously thought.
Is Seattle’s Helmet Law Killing Its Bike-Share?
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Bike-share in Seattle should be doing great, but it has floundered -- and a big reason may be the city's mandatory helmet law.
Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color
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Car-share and bike-share services are making it easier to go without owning a car in American cities, but access to “shared-use” systems remains limited in communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods, according to a new analysis from the Shared Use Mobility Center [PDF]. SUMC developed a method to analyze which places have the most potential for car-share and bike-share usage across […]
Two Very Different Ways Bike-Share Benefits Transit
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A new survey [PDF] by researchers at UC Berkeley and published in Access Magazine sheds light on how bike-share systems interact with transit. Researchers Susan Shaheen and Elliot Martin surveyed more than 10,000 bike-share riders in Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Washington, DC. Like previous surveys have shown, Shaheen and Martin found that a significant number of bike-share users reduce car use. But their […]