Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bay Area Bike Share

Jay Walder on What’s Next for America’s Biggest Bike-Share Company

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015

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. This morning, the company came out with […]

New Name for Alta Bicycle Share: “Motivate”

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015

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.) Motivate operates bike-share systems in New York, DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, making it the […]

Alta Bicycle Share Has New Owners, New CEO, New Expansion Plans

By Stephen Miller | Oct 28, 2014

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 […]

Sources: Alta Bike-Share Buyout a Done Deal; NYC Citi Bike Fleet to Double

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2014

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. The […]

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Feast Your Eyes on Beautiful Trip Data From Year-Old Bay Area Bike Share

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 11, 2014 | 12 Comments

Bay Area Bike Share fans created some pretty dazzling images and videos to visualize the system’s first six months of data, showing how this transportation system connects commuters’ dots in SF and four other cities down the Peninsula. BABS’ first birthday is approaching on August 29, and while the system isn’t growing as fast as many would […]

NYC’s Citi Bike Deal Is Great News for Bay Area Bike Share, Too

By Ben Fried | Jul 25, 2014

It looks like New York City is days away from announcing a deal in which REQX Ventures, an affiliate of the Related Companies and its Equinox unit, will buy out Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike and Bay Area Bike Share. The implications are big — not just for bike-share in New […]

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