Bike Sharing

All the way down the Peninsula, excitement around the pilot launch of Bay Area Bike Share comes tempered with a dose of concern about the small number of bikes that will be clustered around Caltrain stations in five cities.

Bay Area Bike Share started selling annual memberships at noon today, and judging by the buzz on Facebook and Twitter, it looks like hundreds of people have already signed up.

Bay Area Bike Share just got more official with a new website, Facebook and Twitter account.

In case you were wondering what would become of the newly empty curb space at Market and 10th Streets, where the traffic lane stripings were re-configured over the weekend, it turns out the SFMTA plans to put a bike-share station there.

Forget the ridership numbers: you know you've hit the big time when Jon Stewart and company spend a full nine minutes satirizing you at the top of "The Daily Show."

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.

SF editor's note: With Bay Area Bike-Share set to launch in August, this new Streetfilm documenting New York City's bike-share launch yesterday gives us a preview of what's to come. Details about Bay Area Bike-Share will be unveiled at an SFMTA open house this Thursday.

More than a dozen city officials and advocates traveled to Mexico City last week to experience firsthand the ease of getting around a city with robust bus rapid transit and bike-share system.