Bike Sharing
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Bike-Share: Not Just for French Commies
The New York Times ran a piece on Vélib's growing pains this weekend. The story is more thoroughly reported than the hatchet job we saw from the BBC back in February
-- no claims that bike-share in Paris will flame out quickly this time
around. Vélib is part of Parisian life now, and some level of theft and
vandalism is part of the bargain.
November 4, 2009
Daily Breeze Makes a Pitch for Bike and Car Sharing
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:
March 11, 2009
Boston Gets Serious About Bike-Share
The AP reports that Boston is looking to launch a bike-share program -- and not the skimpy, half-hearted variety:
March 5, 2009
Reports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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," strung up from lamp-posts,
and smuggled across borders, the Beeb reports in alarmist tones. A
spokesman for JCDecaux,
the outdoor advertising firm that operates Vélib, calls its contract
with the city of Paris "unsustainable," and the whole system is
referred to in the past tense.
February 12, 2009
LADOT: LA Lacks Bike Network Needed for Bike Sharing
LADOT: Several Obstacles Lie in Way of Bike Sharing for L.A.
November 17, 2008
Bike-Share Hero: Montreal’s Solar-Powered “Bixi” System
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 Paul DeMaio explains what sets Bixi apart:
October 23, 2008
Michigan TV Station: Bikes Are Strange. Buy a Chrysler!
Check out this "news of the weird" item from WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, on last week's DC bike-share debut:
August 25, 2008