The bikesharing thread

[sammyg]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

It looks like Chicago's Divvy bikeshare will FINALLY get its long-awaited expansion next spring. if other large systems don't expand before then, it should make Divvy the largest bikeshare system in the nation in terms of bikes/stations, with a planned total of 4,750 bikes/475 stations. but more exciting to me than just the raw bike & station numbers is the increase in service area from 48 sq. miles to 87 sq. miles of the city.





full article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...821-story.html

This is fantastic. Whenever I go to the Divvy service area, I get so jealous of all of the people hopping on the bikes. Finally, I can grab a bike to get home too, if I don't feel like crowding onto the L.

[LMich]

The GM Tech Center is a huge complex located in Warren, which is just across 8 Mile.

John F. Martin | General Motors

Vast GM Tech Center offers bikes to get around

By Alisa Priddle | Detroit Free Press

August 26, 2014

General Motors has created a bike-sharing program with Zagster to help 19,000 employees at the automaker’s Warren technical center get around.

Zagster, a Cambridge, Mass., company that initiated a similar program last year with Rock Ventures, will provide bikes throughout the 330-acre GM Tech Center to give employees an option other than walking and driving to meetings held among 61 buildings.

“GM is investing not only in the long-term health and productivity of its workforce, but sending a strong message to other employers around the country that bike sharing is a mainstream transportation option for employees,” Timothy Ericson, cofounder and CEO of Zagster, said in a release.

“This is an awesome idea,” John Waechter, a design engineer, said on GM’s internal website, OverDrive. “I can’t wait to quickly get to meetings without walking to a car and finding parking. This is good for exercise, good for on-campus mobility and a nice way to actually learn more about non-auto transportation.”

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[Chicago Shawn]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

It looks like Chicago's Divvy bikeshare will FINALLY get its long-awaited expansion next spring. if other large systems don't expand before then, it should make Divvy the largest bikeshare system in the nation in terms of bikes/stations, with a planned total of 4,750 bikes/475 stations. but more exciting to me than just the raw bike & station numbers is the increase in service area from 48 sq. miles to 87 sq. miles of the city.

full article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...821-story.html

I though we were denied the $2.5 million federal grant to expand this year and that was the primary reason. Nonetheless, it looks like money is found and Divvy has a new equipment supplier to go forward. Seriously awesome news, and this 75 stations beyond the initial planned roll out with a larger territory. I will be using it even more than I do now, but Divvy (CDOT) needs to give the SW side some more love.

[LouisVanDerWright]

Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

I will be using it even more than I do now, but Divvy (CDOT) needs to give the SW side some more love.

Really? Divvy already goes as far as California and Cermak and will cover most of Little Village after the expansion. In fact, I believe that Rogers Park and Little Village are the only two community areas served by Divvy that lie on the city limits. Or are you talking further SW towards McKinley Park and Midway?

[mrnyc]

boston's hubway





a boston bike corral

[Chicago Shawn]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Really? Divvy already goes as far as California and Cermak and will cover most of Little Village after the expansion. In fact, I believe that Rogers Park and Little Village are the only two community areas served by Divvy that lie on the city limits. Or are you talking further SW towards McKinley Park and Midway?

Little Village is West Side; i'm talking about along Archer and out towards, McKinley park, Brighton Park and Midway. Right now Divvy stops at Halsted St south of the river/canal and the expanded roll out only brings it to Damen/Archer/35th; from there the expanded territory takes a hard turn to the east back to Halsted Street.

[awholeparade]

What an incredibly stupid front rack on those Boston bikes.

[Eightball]

DC and NYC bike commuting double in four years
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/09/1...in-four-years/

[mrnyc]

interesting design here in nyc - warm your bike and your tookus on this rack built over a subway grate

[mrnyc]

hoboken has an interesting bike share system.
no docks, you can lock them up anywhere.

http://socialbicycles.com/

[edluva]

LA sucks balls when it comes to bike-share. true to form, it announced an initiative to build a bike-share network a few years ago and is currently still working on bringing its first station to fruition. LA can't even get proper bike lanes installed. it's goal appears to be gaining cumulative lane-mile bragging rights by painting a useless patchwork of discordant lanes with little interest in building a genuinely usable network, and its sole bike-rack installer (can you believe a city with 4 million spread across 469 sq miles hired only one person?) recently retired with no pre-arranged replacement, putting citywide bike-rack installation on indefinite hold.

LA just sucks balls (figuratively speaking of course)

...on a separate note, congrats hoboken!

[202_Cyclist]

Originally Posted by edluva

LA sucks balls when it comes to bike-share. true to form, it announced an initiative to build a bike-share network a few years ago and is currently still working on bringing its first station to fruition. LA can't even get proper bike lanes installed. it's goal appears to be gaining cumulative lane-mile bragging rights by painting a useless patchwork of discordant lanes with little interest in building a genuinely usable network, and its sole bike-rack installer (can you believe a city with 4 million spread across 469 sq miles hired only one person?) recently retired with no pre-arranged replacement, putting citywide bike-rack installation on indefinite hold.

LA just sucks balls (figuratively speaking of course)

...on a separate note, congrats hoboken!

At least Anaheim has a bike-sharing system. Fullerton also has a bike-sharing system: http://bikeshare.bikenationusa.com/map.aspx .

[edluva]

^which is even more pathetic. meanwhile in those few years since announcing a bikeshare program (as we all know by now, it is in LA's blood to make announcements with no follow through) LA falls out of of almost all bike friendliness rankings. who cares if fullerton has bikeshare, is that supposed to be a backhanded compliment? who's going to use it? and to where? LA is what happens when you have a city of morons run by a group of elected morons.

[sukwoo]

Divvy (Chicago bikeshare) expanding to suburbs (Oak Park and Evanston).

http://www3.illinois.gov/PressReleas...3&RecNum=12668

[Steely Dan]

^ it's 8 new stations for evanston, 12 for oak park, and another 30 stations for austin, garfield park, and rogers park to connect the new suburban stations to the larger divvy system. so that's a total of 50 new stations/500 bikes added to the already planned 175 station/1,750 bike expansion scheduled to go in next spring.

this will give divvy a total of 525 stations/5,250 bikes sometime next year. bike sharing in chicago has been a smashing success!

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

this will give divvy a total of 525 stations/5,250 bikes sometime next year. bike sharing in chicago has been a smashing success!

^ No surprise here. Chicago really has the topography and city layout to make it one of the most bike-friendly cities in that country, if not world. The only real issue is the biting cold from December-March.

[Leo the Dog]

Originally Posted by edluva

LA sucks balls when it comes to bike-share. true to form, it announced an initiative to build a bike-share network a few years ago and is currently still working on bringing its first station to fruition. LA can't even get proper bike lanes installed. it's goal appears to be gaining cumulative lane-mile bragging rights by painting a useless patchwork of discordant lanes with little interest in building a genuinely usable network, and its sole bike-rack installer (can you believe a city with 4 million spread across 469 sq miles hired only one person?) recently retired with no pre-arranged replacement, putting citywide bike-rack installation on indefinite hold.

LA just sucks balls (figuratively speaking of course)

...on a separate note, congrats hoboken!

So why do you choose to live and contribute to such a god awful place?

[fflint]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

bike sharing in chicago has been a smashing success!

Three close friends visited Chicago last month and they rode Divvy everywhere--miles and miles each day. Their account is definitely one of a successful bikeshare system!

[brickell]

From exmiami.org

Bike sharing is coming to Miami in November. Here’s what you need to know:

There will be about 75 stations in Miami with 750 bikes (see map below)
Miami’s Bike Sharing will be linked with the existing program in Miami Beach, which already has 100 stations and 1,000 bikes
You will eventually be able to pick up in Miami and drop off in Miami beach, and vice versa
The existing bikes on Miami Beach will be replaced with better three-speed models (currently one-speed) and new branding
Citibank will be sponsoring the bikes, as they do in New York with the Citi Bike program
Citibank will also be sponsoring Wallcasts and the SoundScape Cinema Series at the New World Symphony

[Prahaboheme]

The long awaited San Diego bikeshare program has finally launched. Stations are being installed around downtown and neighboring areas. The vedor is Decobike - the same company that runs bike share in Miami Beach.

Station Map: http://www.decobike.com/sandiego/map-location

A few installation pictures:

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This is Gas Lamp district - J Street / 5th

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6th / B Street area

Ultimately, there will be 180 stations.