Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Bike-Share Hero: Montreal’s Solar-Powered “Bixi” System

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2008 | 4 Comments

Via the Bike-Sharing Blog, this vid shows a modular bike-share station getting set up in what must be record time. It’s part of a trial system in Montreal called Bixi (contraction of "bike" and "taxi," rhymes with pixie), which launched last month and is set to ramp up with 2,400 bikes next April. Bike-Sharing Blog’s […]

Upright Citizens: Bikes and Walking Next Best Thing to Teleportation

By Ben Fried | Sep 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

From a Q&A with comedian Amy Poehler and her improv-mates in the Upright Citizens Brigade, spotted in the current issue of Time Out New York: What’s the future of New York? What are your hopes, and what needs to happen? Matt Besser: I want them to get rid of that law that inhibits Critical Mass. […]

Michigan TV Station: Bikes Are Strange. Buy a Chrysler!

By Brad Aaron | Aug 25, 2008 | 5 Comments

Check out this "news of the weird" item from WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, on last week’s DC bike-share debut: Not all that surprising, we suppose, on a news site where the day’s top-ranked story is "End of the line for GM’s 3800 V-6." And the station’s view of cycling gets less strange after the jump.

Streetfilms: DC Bike-Share Hits the Ground Rolling

By Brad Aaron | Aug 22, 2008 | 16 Comments

With the first US bike-share system starting up just a short Amtrak ride away in Washington, DC, you know it wouldn’t take long for the Streetfilms crew to make the scene. This week, Elizabeth Press, Clarence Eckerson and Robin Urban Smith took the already-popular SmartBike DC for a spin, and talked to local citizens, advocates […]

Party Conventions May Be Bike-Friendly After All

By Damien Newton | Aug 21, 2008 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, as part of the "Bike Unfriendly Place of the Week" series at Streetsblog Los Angeles, I took a look at the bike planning at the Democratic National Convention. Local press reports were dire, noting that bike racks near the Pepsi Center in Denver would be closed down as part of […]

Bike-Share Debuts in Washington D.C.

By Ben Fried | Aug 14, 2008 | 6 Comments

Public bike-share in the U.S. hit a milestone yesterday when SmartBike DC, the first program of its kind in an American city, launched in full. Coverage in the Washington Post was heavy on the implications for D.C.’s image: Today the city will join the ranks of Paris and Barcelona with the launch of the first […]

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