Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bay Area Bike Share

Palo Alto to Add Smart Bikes to Bike Share System

By Andrew Boone | Oct 7, 2016 | 3 Comments

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 […]

Tell Bay Area Bike Share Where You Want Stations in the Tenfold Expansion

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 4, 2015 | 12 Comments

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. The map received 1,500 spot suggestions within the first 12 hours of its launch, said Dani Simons, spokesperson for Motivate, the bike-share […]

It’s Coming: MTC Approves 10-Fold Expansion of Bay Area Bike Share

By Andrew Boone | May 28, 2015 | 36 Comments

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. In addition […]

America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2015 | No Comments

Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes. When the current Motivate management team took over last fall, they inherited two big problems. Most of their systems ran on flawed software that crippled reliability and frustrated riders, and the manufacturer of their bikes had gone bankrupt. Now both issues […]

To Expand Bike-Share on the Peninsula, Cities Will Have to Support It

By Andrew Boone | Apr 7, 2015 | 11 Comments

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 […]

Bay Area Bike Share to Expand to 7,000 Bikes By 2017

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 2, 2015 | 67 Comments

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 […]

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