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Boston Gets Serious About Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | | 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 […]

New York Gives Us a Broad Vision of Change

By Damien Newton | | 3 Comments
The word "change" gets thrown around a lot these days, yet a lot of people still have trouble picturing what "change" would look like when it comes to transportation.  Change is about more than increasing the number of buses and painting sharrows; it’s a vision of reclaiming streets for people instead of cars.  Today, the […]

Reports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

By Ben Fried | | 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," […]

Is Transit a Priority for Nancy Pelosi?

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Pelosi helps cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Muni’s T-line. Photo: kitetoa/Flickr House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco claims she is committed to public transit and reducing motor vehicle congestion. In a speech to the Regional Plan Association (RPA) last April she said her flagship issues as speaker are energy independence and […]

Underground Bike Parking in Japan

By Damien Newton | | 4 Comments
And now, for something completely different. While a lot of the local news recently has been negative, let’s take a second to forget our local issues for a moment and celebrate a new innovation in bicycle parking coming to us from the Land of the Rising Sun. The above video shows a new, automated, bicycle […]
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