Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bike Sharing

Daily Breeze Makes a Pitch for Bike and Car Sharing

By Damien Newton | Mar 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

In an editorial earlier today, the Daily Breeze, a newspaper covering the area between LAX and the Harbor, praised the city for moving ahead with a car sharing program and studying bike share. In its own words the Breeze made the case for shared vehicles and managed to do it without calling supporters communists: With […]

Boston Gets Serious About Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | Mar 5, 2009 | No Comments

The AP reports that Boston is looking to launch a bike-share program — and not the skimpy, half-hearted variety: The city has put out a request for proposals to create a bike share program. The proposal envisions a network of 150 stations scattered across the city with 1,500 bicycles available to students, commuters and visitors […]

Reports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

By Ben Fried | Feb 12, 2009 | No Comments

JCDecaux touted Vélib on the cover of its 2007 annual report [PDF]. If you’ve read this BBC story currently making the rounds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Vélib, Paris’s wildly popular bike-share system, has suddenly been afflicted by an epidemic of theft and vandalism that threatens its very existence. Vélib bikes have been "torched," […]

Good Samaritan Opens Bike Sharing Program

By Damien Newton | Dec 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

From this week’s Los Angeles County Bike Coalition newsletter comes news that one major employer in Los Angeles is bringing bike sharing for their employees. Bike Sharing At Good Sam Good Samaritan Hospital in Downtown Los Angeles has launched a bike-sharing program that allows its approximately 1,500 employees to borrow bicycles for traveling around the […]

LADOT: LA Lacks Bike Network Needed for Bike Sharing

By Damien Newton | Nov 17, 2008 | 5 Comments

LADOT: Several Obstacles Lie in Way of Bike Sharing for L.A. This Friday, as part of their Big Bikes Meeting Volume 2, the Council will consider whether or not to ask LADOT to begin soliciting proposals to bring bike sharing to Los Angeles. However, based in part on testimony delivered when Chairwoman Greuel first brought […]

Bike-Share Hero: Montreal’s Solar-Powered “Bixi” System

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2008 | No Comments

Via the Bike-Sharing Blog, this vid shows a modular bike-share station getting set up in what must be record time. It’s part of a trial system in Montreal called Bixi (contraction of "bike" and "taxi," rhymes with pixie), which launched last month and is set to ramp up with 2,400 bikes next April. Bike-Sharing Blog’s […]

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