Bikeshare

MoGo Bikeshare Bikes

Next Steps After S.F. Bay Area Adaptive Bikeshare Pilot Program

A summer program incorporated adaptive bikes into the region’s bikeshare network as a first step in making the system accessible to more riders.

November 4, 2019 - Next City

Metro Bikes

California Adds Bikeshare and E-Bikes to its List of Dirty, Old Car Replacement Options

The Clean Cars 4 All program provides incentives for low-income Californians to replace old, polluting cars with an electric car or a transit pass. Now residents can also choose electric-assist bikes and bikeshare as a mobility option.

September 12, 2019 - California Bicycle Coalition

Ford GoBike

A Bikeshare Showdown Between Uber and Lyft

Lyft may soon not be the sole bikeshare operation in San Francisco as the city looks to expand the system and open the market up to other companies.

June 10, 2019 - Streetsblog USA

Florida Bikeshare

The State of Micromobility

The NACTO Bike Share and Micromobility Initiative yesterday published a bunch of data and infographics to explain the state of shared micromobility, defined as station-based bikeshare, dockless bike share, and scooter share.

April 18, 2019 - NACTO

Chicago Divvy

Lyft to Help Expand Bike Share Citywide in Chicago

A sponsorship deal from Lyft, which owns the bike share provider Motivate, would expand Divvy bike service to every ward in Chicago.

March 21, 2019 - Streetsblog Chicago

SoMa San Francisco

It Takes a Fatality to Remove On-Street Parking

On March 8, 30-year-old Tess Rothstein of Berkeley was riding a rented Ford GoBike in San Francisco's SoMa district when a car door suddenly opened, forcing her outside the narrow white line of the conventional bike lane into the path of a truck.

March 15, 2019 - San Francisco Examiner

Divvy Chicago

Public Engagement and Bike Share Planning

New York and Chicago asked residents to suggest sites for new docking stations. Most were not put at those locations, but that doesn’t mean collecting public input is not a useful and important part of the planning process, say researchers.

January 22, 2019 - CityLab

Ofo Bikes

Bikeshare Startup Ofo’s Future Is Looking Dim. What Went Wrong?

The Chinese company seemed to be dominating its corner of the shared mobility market—until its dramatic downfall.

January 2, 2019 - The Globe and Mail

Mobility

Bikeshare Programs Lack Accessible Options

City bikeshare programs are failing to provide equal access for disabled residents, the Times reports.

December 20, 2018 - New York Times

Citi Bike Rack

Citi Bike Expansion Coming, Along With a Political Battle Over Electric-Assist Bikes and Scooters

Citi Bike's new owner is funding a massive expansion of the bike share system. Meanwhile ,City Hall is prepping for a battle over electric assist bikes and scooters.

December 5, 2018 - StreetsBlog NYC

Dockless Bike Share

Dockless Pedal Bikeshare Loses Traction

Once a darling of investors and urbanists alike, pedal-driven dockless bikeshare is getting eclipsed by e-scooters and e-bikes.

October 12, 2018 - Streetsblog USA

Metro Bikes

Can Bikeshare Work Without Bike Lanes?

One journalist argues that missing ingredient for a flourishing bike culture isn't rental bikes; it's safe places to ride.

September 30, 2018 - Pasadena Star News

Abandoned Bike Share

Smaller Cities Rejecting Dockless Bike Share

Two cities, of similar size (about 90,000 residents), and located in different corners of the country, unceremoniously dispatched dockless bikeshare pilots in recent weeks.

September 29, 2018 - WCVB

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Bikeshare Pilots Partnership With Lyft

The six-month pilot will offer discounts on Lyft rides that begin or end at a bikeshare station.

September 11, 2018 - Michigan Live

Minnesota Bike Share

The Minneapolis Plan to Tame Dockless Bike Sharing

A new dockless expansion will grow the city’s bikeshare network but without the disorder that has plagued ventures in other cities.

August 23, 2018 - CityLab

Bike and Scooter SHare

Lyft to Add Bike and Scooter Share Options

The transportation network company is integrating new mobility options to help fill the first-last mile gap in cities.

July 21, 2018 - Medium

E-Bike Bikeshare

Uber Launches Jump Electric Bike Share in Austin

Austin is one of the first cities where users can use Uber's new bike share system, after the transportation network company branched out earlier this year.

July 6, 2018 - KXAN

CoGo Bikeshare

Lyft Finalizes Deal to Buy Motivate

The transportation network company has purchased the largest operators of bike share programs in the United States.

July 3, 2018 - Lyft Blog

Indego

Philadelphia to License Dockless Bike and Scooter Share Companies

Philadelphia offers another regulatory model to respond to the proliferation of dockless bike, ebike, and electric scooter share companies.

June 27, 2018 - PlanPhilly

Electric Scooter Share

Bad Break for Scooter Rental Company in its Hometown

Years before there was e-scooter-share, there was electric (Vespa-like) scooter-share in San Francisco by start-up Scoot. Now that they are ready to launch electric bikeshare, the city won't let them, unlike Barcelona, Spain where it began service.

May 31, 2018 - San Francisco Chronicle

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