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Palo Alto to Add Smart Bikes to Bike Share System
On Tuesday evening, the Palo Alto City Council directed staff to continue contract negotiations for replacing the city’s existing 35 bike-share bikes with 350 new SoBi "smart bikes". Unlike today's Bay Area Bike Share bikes, SoBi bikes are equipped with an on-board lock so they aren't dependent on fixed docking stations to operate. Customers can find the bikes using a GPS-based phone application, and can finish a rental by locking the bike to any city bike rack.
October 7, 2016
Tell Bay Area Bike Share Where You Want Stations in the Tenfold Expansion
With a tenfold expansion secured last week, Bay Area Bike Share launched an interactive online map where you can weigh in on where the next wave of stations should go in SF, the East Bay, and San Jose.
June 4, 2015
It’s Coming: MTC Approves 10-Fold Expansion of Bay Area Bike Share
On Wednesday morning the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) approved contract terms with Motivate International to expand the Bay Area Bike Share system from 700 bikes to more than 7,000 bikes by November 2017. When the expansion wraps up, the Bay Area's system is expected to be the second-largest in North America, after Citi Bike in New York City.
May 28, 2015
America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes
Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes.
May 7, 2015
To Expand Bike-Share on the Peninsula, Cities Will Have to Support It
Bay Area Bike Share's ten-fold expansion announced last Thursday will vastly increase the usefulness of bike-share in SF, the East Bay, and San Jose at no cost to the public. Peninsula cities, however, won't be sharing in the bounty unless they chip in some of their own funds. Without public support, the 20 existing stations in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Redwood City are in jeopardy of being relocated.
April 7, 2015
Bay Area Bike Share to Expand to 7,000 Bikes By 2017
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.
April 2, 2015
Jay Walder on What’s Next for America’s Biggest Bike-Share Company
Last fall, former MTA chief Jay Walder took over as CEO of Alta Bicycle Share, part of a restructuring that injected new resources and expertise into a company that had struggled to keep up with the demands of running bike-share systems in half a dozen major American cities.
January 14, 2015
New Name for Alta Bicycle Share: “Motivate”
After new management took over in 2014, injecting capital and expertise that's expected to turn around a sputtering operation, the company formerly known as Alta Bicycle Share has adopted a new name: Motivate. (A verb! Very active transportation-y.)
January 14, 2015
Alta Bicycle Share Has New Owners, New CEO, New Expansion Plans
It's official: Alta Bicycle Share, the company that runs Citi Bike, has a new owner, an infusion of cash, and a fresh face at the top -- longtime transit executive Jay Walder. At a press conference this afternoon, the new team promised to correct Citi Bike's blunders and double the system's size by the end of 2017.
October 28, 2014
Sources: Alta Bike-Share Buyout a Done Deal; NYC Citi Bike Fleet to Double
The buyout of Alta Bicycle Share rumored since July is finally a done deal. Alta -- which operates New York's Citi Bike, Washington, DC's Capital Bikeshare, Chicago's Divvy, San Francisco's Bay Area Bike Share, and several other cities' systems -- will be purchased by REQX Ventures, an affiliate of the Related Companies and its Equinox unit.
October 27, 2014