bike share

Bike Share Expanding In Toronto

Mayor John Tory announced a 2018 expansion of bike share that will include 3,750 new bikes and 360 new stations.

September 2, 2018 - Daily Hive

Citi Bike Rack

Citi Bike Launches Dockless Bike Share Experiment

Instead of expanding the traditional docked bike share stations, Citi Bike will launch new dockless bikes in the Bronx.

August 17, 2018 - StreetsBlog NYC

Ford GoBike

The Ford GoBike Resistance

Politicians and residents are uniting to delay Ford GoBike's expansion around San Francisco.

August 7, 2018 - San Francisco Examiner

Dockless Bike Share

Dockless Bike Share Arrives in Staten Island

Lime and Jump were allowed to bring 300 bikes to the borough, where bike share became available in late July.

August 3, 2018 - Curbed NY

Dockless Bikeshare

Mobike Quits D.C.

More like less-bike.

July 30, 2018 - The Washington Post

Dockless Bike Share

There's Little ofo Left to Share

Bike share company ofo's U.S. presence shrinks to a fraction of its former self, slashing its headcount and ending service in all but three U.S. cities.

July 28, 2018 - Quartz

Citi Bike Rack

Subsidizing Bike Share for Low-Income Riders

In New York, SNAP recipients to get access to Citi Bikes at discount like DIVY riders already do in Chicago.

July 25, 2018 - Fast Company

Boston SUburbs

Suburban Bike Share Reaches Across Town Borders

In smaller towns in the greater Boston area, communities are offering bike share that crosses town borders.

July 24, 2018 - The Boston Globe

Free Floating Bikeshare

Dockless Scooters and Bike Share Meet Mixed Receptions

Milwaukee is poised to start a Scooter share pilot. Meanwhile, a “lock to” requirement for bikes in Chicago may stop companies like ofo and Lime from keeping a foothold in that city.

July 17, 2018 - Next City

Cincinnati Suburb, Blue Ash, Gets Bike Share

Blue Ash’s 50-bike pilot makes it the first suburb in the area with a bike share system.

July 14, 2018 - WCPO

Dockless Bike SHare

The First Bike Share in a Native American Community

Lime Bike will be available at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, a first for bike share in the US.

June 13, 2018 - Fast Company

What's a Transit Pod?

Lime Bike hopes to provide a new option for transit and mobility share that would resemble an electric golf cart.

June 11, 2018 - Bloomberg

Citi Bike Rack

Lyft to Buy Motivate, One of America's Largest Bike Share Providers

Motivate operates Ford Gobike in the Bay Area, Citi Bike in New York and Divvy in Chicago among other bike share fleets.

June 4, 2018 - CNET

Dockless Scooters

Dockless Electric Scooter Share on the Rise

Limebike and Bird are mobility companies currently offering ride share for electric scooters in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, respectively.

March 21, 2018 - City Lab

Baltimore Bikeshare

Lyft Enters Into Bikeshare With Baltimore Partnership

Lyft has entered into a partnership with Baltimore Bike Share, on the heels of Uber's entrance into the San Francisco bike-share market.

February 20, 2018 - Modern Cities

Seattle Bikeshare

Bikeshare Still Searching for Profit

In Seattle, where bikes can be rented for as little as $2, rental fees don't cover most of the costs associated with bik share.

February 15, 2018 - KUOW

Chicago Divvy

Chicago Bikeshare Rides Are Up, But Revenue Is Down in 2017

As the Chicago bikeshare service extends to more area in the city, some of the stations are in less dense locations and get fewer riders. Thus, though Divvy's revenues have gone up, the income to the city from the program has gone down.

January 1, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

Shanghai

Bike Sharing Leaves Shanghai Drowning in Bikes

Multiple bikesharing companies have put 280,000 bikes on Shanghai's streets, but many are parked in random locations or left unusable on city sidewalks.

March 18, 2017 - Shanghai Daily

D.C. Metro

Where Have D.C.'s Metro Riders Gone?

Following an 11 percent drop in ridership in the last quarter, transportations experts are left scratching their heads as to where D.C.'s Metrorail riders have gone.

October 11, 2016 - The Washington Post

Pensacola, Downtown Arts District

Does Downtown Pensacola Need More Parking? Maybe. Probably Not.

A study funded by the city of Pensacola, Florida found that the city's downtown faces a potential parking deficit in the near future, but recommends that weaning people off their cars could reduce parking demand.

August 15, 2016 - Pensacola NewsJournal

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