SFMTA Bay Area Bike Share Open House
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Meet Bay Area Bike Share
By Aaron Bialick |
Update 4:53 p.m.: The SFMTA just launched a bike-share station crowdsourcing map (using, we should note, a tool from OpenPlans, Streetsblog’s parent organization). The agency wants “people’s comments on where they would like to see Bay Area Bike Share stations as well as what they think of the initial 35 station locations,” said spokesperson Ben Jose. It’s probably […]
Shifting Direction, SFMTA Brings Bay Area Bike Share to New Neighborhoods
By Aaron Bialick |
The next 15 Bay Area Bike Share stations to be rolled out in San Francisco won’t fill in the system’s existing downtown footprint as originally planned — instead, planners have decided it’s time to bring the system out to neighborhoods like the Mission, the Castro, Hayes Valley, and Mission Bay sooner than expected. Although the […]
Bay Area Bike Share Releases Pricing and Membership Details
By Aaron Bialick |
Bay Area Bike Share just got more official with a new website, Facebook and Twitter account. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced the system’s new social media presence along with its pricing and membership details: Membership rates to join Bay Area Bike Share will be $88 for an annual pass, $22 for a three-day pass and $9 for a […]
SFCTA Report: Expand Bike-Share in San Francisco ASAP
By Aaron Bialick |
The SF County Transportation Authority issued a new report Monday to guide the expansion of Bay Area Bike Share, which sees 90 percent of its rides in San Francisco, despite the city encompassing half of the system’s bikes and stations. Among the recommendations in the “Strategic Analysis Report” [PDF] is giving the SFMTA greater independence to […]
Open Thread: Bay Area Bike Share Goes Live at Noon Today
By Aaron Bialick |
Are you planning to hop on Bay Area Bike Share when it goes live at noon today? Head to the comments section to share your expectations and observations. Do you find the bikes useful even with the limited size of the program? We want to hear about your experiences. We’ll have a full report on the […]
Phil Matier Needs to Do His Homework on Transit and Bike Policy
By Aaron Bialick |
Phil Matier, a pundit for KCBS and the SF Chronicle, has been betraying a rather stunning lack of policy knowledge recently, painting transit in the Bay Area as a boondoggle and wagging his finger at “bicycle lobbyists” for opposing a statewide mandatory helmet law. In a KCBS radio segment this week, Matier did seem to […]