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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 […]
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 […]
Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced
By Melanie Curry |
Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers. Bay Area Bike Share released a map of proposed sites for bike-share stations in the East Bay today. Proposed sites for expansion into San Francisco and San Jose have already been released, but these are the first ones for […]
Bay Area Bike Share to Expand to 7,000 Bikes By 2017
By Aaron Bialick |
Bay Area Bike Share will expand to a 7,000-bike system over the next two years and venture into Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. San Francisco’s system will dramatically increase to 4,500 bikes, and San Jose’s will expand to 1,000. The mayors of all five cities announced the expansion today along with Motivate, the system’s operator (formerly known as […]
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 […]