Bike Sharing

Awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to LeMond is a watershed moment for advocates and policymakers alike to promote biking and bike safety.

When the new acquisition finalizes next month, Bicycle Transit will operate in nearly 30 cities — more than three-times as much as its publicly traded competition.

By all accounts, micromobility is taking off. So why are so many systems shutting down?

The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.

Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers.

Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes.

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.

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.

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.