Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Sharing

“The Daily Show” on Citi Bike: “Doesn’t Anybody Have a Real Objection?”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 7, 2013 | No Comments

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.” The first segment, which leans heavily on the fact that European cities also have bike-share and pseudo-satirizes unfounded fears about the program’s safety, is funny […]

Capital Bikeshare Members Reduced Their Driving 4.4 Million Miles Per Year

By Tanya Snyder | May 23, 2013 | No Comments

We’ve noted before that it can be challenging to figure out exactly how much driving is avoided when someone rides a bike. But here we have it straight from the horse’s mouth – nearly 7,000 horses, in fact. According to a November 2012 survey of Capital Bikeshare members, released today, the average subscriber drove 198 miles […]

Video: BikeShare.com Checks in on Bike Nation Anaheim

By Damien Newton | Mar 11, 2013 | 5 Comments

The team at BikeShare.com took a trip to Anaheim last week to look at the work completed on the first installment of Bike Nation’s Anaheim system. The above video goes into the pros and cons of Bike Nation’s design and of bicycling in Anaheim, but overall the review is pretty positive. As Matt Christensen writes […]

Bike Nation Announces Nine Kiosks for First Rollout of Los Angeles Bike Share in April 2013

By Damien Newton | Dec 20, 2012 | 10 Comments

In just under an hour, Bike Nation will publicly announce the nine locations for kiosks in its initial rollout of what is promised to be a massive bike share system for Los Angeles. Last April, Bike Nation promised a 400 kiosk, 4,000 bike bike share system to be installed in Downtown Los Angeles, Westwood, Venice […]

Want a Bike Share in Your Backyard? If You Live Downtown, Tell Bike Nation

By Damien Newton | Aug 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

It’s been a big week for Bike Nation. While most media will note their plans to bring 2,500 bikes to the City of Long Beach for another Southern California bike share program, a smaller project is going to get big attention in the Los Angeles bicycle community. Yesterday, Bike Nation announced that registered users can […]

Bike Nation Opens Shop in Anaheim

By Damien Newton | Jul 23, 2012 | 11 Comments

Created with flickr slideshow.This Saturday, Bike Nation launched Southern California’s first bike share system in Anaheim. While no Streetsblog writer managed to attend, we’ll make it a little later this week to try out the bikes, kiosks and registration without Bike Nation staff there to help us out. But one of our intrepid readers, Erik […]

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