San Mateo Bike Share Update: City Readies to Double Fleet to 100 Bikes
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The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.
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Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced
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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 […]
America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes
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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 […]
Bay Area Bike Share to Expand to 7,000 Bikes By 2017
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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 […]
Two Key Factors That Can Make or Break a Bike-Share Network
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What if you could dramatically increase the usefulness of a bike-share system without adding any bicycles or docks? Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business have come up with a model that they say could help even the most successful bike-share systems in the world get more bang for the buck. The […]
Arlington Offers Cash Bike-Share Memberships to the Unbanked
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Washington, DC, is 50 percent black, but only 3 percent of Capital Bikeshare members are. As in many cities, the DC bike-share system’s users are disproportionately white, educated, and employed. As advocates and city officials have tried to make this economical and healthy transportation option more widely accessible, they’ve persistently come across a major obstacle: […]