Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Sharing

Three Years Later: Is L.A. Ready for Bike Share

By Damien Newton | Aug 8, 2011 | 12 Comments

In September of 2008, Los Angeles was beginning to move towards creating a bike share system for Los Angeles. It was a hot topic at the time after then City-Council Transportation Committee Chair and now Comptroller/Mayoral Candidate Wendy Greuel championed the idea after experiencing a successful temporary bike share program at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. […]

Metro Board Quickly Moves on Green Construction, Position on HSR, Bike Share and Bus Studies

By Damien Newton | Aug 4, 2011 | 3 Comments

This morning, Mayor Villaraigosa’s last term as Chair of the Metro Board of Directors got off to an efficient and relatively controversy-free start as Supervisors passed motions on studying the impacts of Metro’s bus cuts and Bus Rapid Transit expansion, a second study on the costs and benefits of a bike share program, the approval […]

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The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China

By Elizabeth Press | Jun 2, 2011 | No Comments

Anyone who claims that bike-sharing is a European-style transportation innovation has clearly never set foot in Hangzhou, China. The 50,000-bike system in this southern China city of almost 7 million people (about 1.5 million people fewer than New York City) blows all other bike-shares off the map. As Bradley Schroeder of the Institute for Transportation […]

Bike Talk Recap: Bike Sharing Live and Die Based on the Planning Details

By Michael Cahn | Feb 14, 2011 | 4 Comments

BikeTalk this Saturday featured an extended discussion about the technicalities, challenges, and beauties of a bike share programs. On the show we had Phil Brock, Santa Monica Parks and Rec commissioner, Ryan Rzepecki from with Social Bike, who are developing the intelligent locking system which can operate independently of return stations, Todd Loewenstein, Co-owner of Baiku Bikes, […]

A Promising Start for Minneapolis Bike-Sharing

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 10, 2010 | No Comments

The early data is in on one of the country’s pioneering bike-sharing systems, and it brings some encouraging news. Minneapolis’s Nice Ride, which launched this summer, topped 100,000 trips in its first five months. Crash rates and vandalism were very low. Perhaps most interesting was the effect on driving, reports The Bike-Sharing Blog. Nice Ride […]

Real-Time Bike-Share Maps Show America’s Got Some Catching Up to Do

By Noah Kazis | Oct 21, 2010 | No Comments

A fantastic new visualization of 16 bike-share systems around the world lets you see how people are using public bikes from London to Melbourne. You can watch animated graphics, for example, of bikes getting picked up in one part of town and dropped off in another during rush hour. The site, created by Oliver O’Brien, […]

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