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1,000 New Divvy Bikes Are Headed To Chicago's South And West Sides
Three of my closest friends spent a week in Chicago last summer and utilized Divvy for every trip they took (when it wasn't raining). Two of them said it's the best bikeshare system they have utilized. I should note they spent their entire trip within the Loop and northerly, mostly lake-adjacent districts. This new expansion opens up a lot more of the city.
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Regarding Divvy, the Nationals broadcast announcer noted that Chris Heisey of the Nats used Divvy when they were in Chicago and rode the CitiBikes when the Nationals played the Mets this past week.
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Citi Bike to expand in Manhattan and Brooklyn this summer

By Vincent Barone May 19, 2016


There will be 10,000 bright blue bikes on the streets of New York by the end of the year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Motivate, the Citi Bike operator, announced Thursday that the bike share network will expand further into uptown Manhattan and south Brooklyn this summer.

New stations will come to Manhattan up to 110th Street, and in Brooklyn’s neighborhoods of Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Park Slope.

“The recent growth and expansion of Citi Bike is great for New York City, and something we are proud to have helped secure,” said Mayor de Blasio in a statement. “My former neighbors in Park Slope will certainly welcome the blue bikes this summer, and their arrival in transit-deprived neighborhoods like Red Hook illustrates our continued commitment to strengthening all of our communities and fighting inequality.”

The expansion is set to begin this August and will involve the installation of about 140 new docks and about 2,000 bikes.

The news comes just before Citi Bike’s three-year anniversary and shortly after the bike share celebrated 2015 as its busiest year, with more than 10 million total trips logged.


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Atlanta's bike share finally launching this month, but with just 100 bikes. Expected to expand later this year to 500 bikes with a density of 10-14 stations per square mile. Further expansion from there would depend on getting a title sponsor.

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Atlanta Launches Bike-Share

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Last week, phase one of the city’s Relay Bike Share program rolled out with 100 bikes at 10 stations downtown, just in time for the third annual Atlanta Cycling Festival, which in previous years drew crowds of up to 3,000 cyclists.

- According to census data, only 4,064 metro Atlantans identify as daily bicycle commuters out of 2.6 million commuters total. The percentage of biking commuters in Portland is 10 times that of Atlanta’s percentage. That means there’s more work to be done before the mayor and the city’s first chief bicycle officer, Becky Katz, can call Atlanta one of the top 10 bikeable cities in the U.S.

- Right now, only 5 percent of all roads in the city have infrastructure like bike lanes. When planners introduced striped bike lanes and reduced car lanes on part of Ponce de Leon Avenue, a thoroughfare that runs across several neighborhoods, in December 2013, road traffic rose by 4,000, but crashes dropped by 25 percent the next year. However, a similar plan for another highly trafficked street, Peachtree Road, was met with opposition from many residents and business leaders.

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Bike Share Coming to Tucson

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Tucson will receive $1.3 million in federal funds, which it will use to build 30 bike stations throughout the downtown area but also as far east as Country Club and as far west as Pima Community College on Anklam.

The city will hire a vendor in the next two months and then take another six months to get the equipment and stations in place so it will likely be up and running sometime in 2017.

Tucson is adapting its streets downtown for the coming Bike Share program and it's commitment to biking in general.

Already, Stone and Pennington have been reduced to two lanes of traffic with a dedicated bike lane separated by a median.

It's being planned for several more blocks of Stone, which is three lanes of vehicle traffic now, and on Church Avenue downtown.
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Citi Bike breaks daily ridership record with over 60,000 trips taken

By Vincent Barone vin.barone@amny.com September 8, 2016


Blue bikes have New Yorkers spinning.

For the third time since May, Citi Bike has broken a daily ridership record and in doing so eclipsed the 60,000 trip mark for the first time ever.

On Wednesday, Citi Bike logged 60,278 trips in its system. Motivate, Citi Bike’s operators, pointed out that London’s larger and more well-established bike share system has only breached 60,000 daily trips twice since its launch in 2010.

“Citi Bike continues to break records both at home and abroad with 60,000 trips on Wednesday. Citi Bike is the busiest bike share system in North America and one of the busiest in the world,” said Dani Simons, a spokeswoman for Motivate. “As we continue to add more bikes and more stations we’ve got our sights set on breaking not just bike share records, but transit records as well.”

The record comes as Citi Bike nears the completion of its second phase of expansion in uptown Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn. So far, the rideshare has installed 108 of its 139 new stations. Simons said the remainder will be installed over the next few weeks.

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Ford is getting into buses and bike-sharing, because cars aren’t cutting it anymore

Read More: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/128...-san-francisco

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The company is acquiring Chariot, a private, crowdsourced shuttle service based in San Francisco, and is investing in Motivate, the largest operators of bike-share programs in the US. It also announced plans to set up a new division within the company tasked with advising cities directly about “mobility solutions,” CEO Mark Fields told The Verge Friday.

- It’s another sign that Ford, one of the oldest and most storied car makers in the world, is aware of that the writing on the wall is not favorable to car companies. Consumers are trending away from personal car ownership, and toward ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which have both been recently emphasizing carpooling as the next big idea in transportation. --- In fact, over the last year, Fields has tried to position his company as an honest-to-god competitor to Silicon Valley upstarts like Google and Tesla by investing in self-driving cars, as well as mobility ventures like car-sharing and private transit.

- It will also work with Motivate, which operates the Bay Area Bike Share program, to add 7,000 new bikes called “Ford GoBikes” to the city’s bike-share infrastructure, which will be accessible to users of the company’s FordPass app. --- Ford envisions both the private shuttle and bike-share programs synced up with one another, which means “users have the opportunity to shift back and forth for all kinds of different reasons, if weather changes their priorities or we have different incentives if we want to move people in the system differently,” said Jim Hackett, chair of the company’s spinoff company, Ford Smart Mobility LLC.

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I find the Ford logo on bikes humorous. That said, adding 7,000 bikes to the Bay Area network is so awesome, they have my official permission to brand them anything they want. I love the idea of biking downtown and not having to 1) worry about the safety of my bike while parked, and 2) having the option of taking the subway or an Uber home without encountering 1) above.
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Atlanta bike share expanding, sponsor to be named in November.

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As the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports, plans call for between 50 and 60 new stations around the city — including neighborhoods outside of the core like Reynoldstown, West End, and Buckhead — in the coming six months.
First, 12 stations will be added to downtown and Midtown this year to fill out the system in the heart of the city and the campuses of Georgia State University and Georgia Tech. Also, expect a station in Piedmont Park.
Along with the expansion, a corporate sponsor is expected to be announced in November. And, if things go well with TSPLOST, the program could receive an additional $3 million in funding to allow for expansion up to 1,000 bikes.
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Do Bike Share Systems Actually Work?

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Bike sharing was launched in the United States seven years ago, and it's about time we considered whether the systems are actually benefiting cities and their residents. A good place to start is to look at the three major factors that Zoe Kircos, director of grants and partnerships for advocacy group People for Bikes, says are the primary goals of bike sharing: reducing traffic congestion, boosting public health, and increasing mobility.

- A 2015 study in Transport Reviews looked at systems in five cities, including Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, and found that users substituted rides via bike shares for car trips 8 percent of the time in D.C. and almost 20 percent of the time in Minneapolis. --- A separate study on D.C.’s Capital Bikeshare found that it contributed a modest but noticeable 2 to 3 percent reduction in traffic congestion. And a 2014 report from the NYC Department of Transportation found that even though some traffic lanes were converted to protected bike lanes on various streets, travel times for car traffic remained steady or improved: on Eighth Avenue, they were 14 percent faster, for example.

- More people on bikes translates to not only less traffic congestion but also more physical activity: in excess of 23,000 hours in Minneapolis just in 2012, according to the 2015 study. Additionally, a report on London’s massive bike-share system found injury rates for bike-share users were lower than those for regular cyclists. In the U.S., there has been one bike-share rider death in the system’s seven-year history. By contrast, roughly 700 cyclists die each year on America’s roads. (There is no known cause for that disparity.)

- According to the same London study, even when injury rates and pollution exposure were balanced against physical activity, bike shares have a modest but net positive effect on overall public health by virtue of the physical activity. And a recent study of New York’s Citi Bike program in BMJ’s journal Injury Prevention found that the city’s addition of bike lanes, crucial to Citi Bike’s success, increased lifespan even among nonusers because of the reduction in pollution.

- There are three general structural models for funding bike shares—publicly owned (like London’s Santander Cycles), public-private partnership (like B-Cycle systems), and fully private (like NYC’s Citi Bike). Those that use public funding often use just a small slice of taxpayer-derived money in their total operating budgets and rely primarily on other sources of income, like corporate sponsorship and rider fees.

- An analysis by People for Bikes, a leading organization that advocates for new and safe bike infrastructure, found that public investment in Salt Lake City’s Greenbike and the B-Cycle Denver program, on a per-trip basis, was far less than traditional public transit like bus or rail in those same cities. Both Greenbike and B-Cycle Denver’s public funding subsidies amount to 10 percent or less of total trip cost. By contrast, Salt Lake’s bus and rail system, called UTA, relies on 80 percent public funding per trip.

- So, is the concept of bike share as a whole a success? It’s hard to tell. Bike shares operate on a city-to-city basis, with innumerable unique factors affecting each system. Despite some imperfections, there are very few arguments from users, researchers, or advocates that a bike-share system is bad for a city. But to better quantify the role it plays in the United States, we simply need more frequent and rigorous data and analysis, like the London study. Interest as a research subject has grown along with the systems themselves, a path that will likely continue.

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From the article: " In the U.S., there has been one bike-share rider death in the system’s seven-year history. By contrast, roughly 700 cyclists die each year on America’s roads. (There is no known cause for that disparity.)"

Probably because bike share locations are in urban locations with usually slower traffic more conducive to bikes. Anecdotal I know, but usually when I hear of cyclists getting hit and killed in this state at least it is usually on roads with 45 to 55 mph speed limits.
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Probably because bike share locations are in urban locations with usually slower traffic more conducive to bikes. Anecdotal I know, but usually when I hear of cyclists getting hit and killed in this state at least it is usually on roads with 45 to 55 mph speed limits.
i would believe that plays a big role in the discrepancy.

here are some other thoughts i have from my observations of following bicycle fatalities over the years here in chicago:

there are usually a couple of bike fatalities every year in chicago due in part to cyclists riding at night without lights. all bike share bikes have lights built-in, so there's a huge safety advantage right there.

there are also usually a couple of bike fatalities every year in chicago due in part to cyclists taking undue risks like blowing red lights and stop signs and other wanton disregard for the rules of the road. my hunch is that bike share riders tend to the less aggressive side of the riding spectrum, and thus are less likely to engage in risky, traffic-law-flaunting behavior when they're riding.
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I noticed that people who use those "bike sharing" bikes...they're pretty much all the same thing...from what I've experienced; Houston, Chicago, DC, London, LA, Boston, etc are more for tourists and commuter convenience have different attitudes about riding than those who own their own bikes. Riders who rent the bikes are more cautious and those who own their own bike are more militant as to who has more of a right to the road. I've been caught off many times by some douche in a $2,500 Trek in rush hour traffic and these guys wonder why they end up a statistic.

Renters tend to stay in the designated bike lanes.
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I found this video to have quite a few nice explanations for why bikeshare users seem to be much safer than cyclists overall (weight and visibility of the bike and low top speeds are a big factor)

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In Cincinnati, people have the bad habit of letting their kids ride in the basket:
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i would believe that plays a big role in the discrepancy.

here are some other thoughts i have from my observations of following bicycle fatalities over the years here in chicago:

there are usually a couple of bike fatalities every year in chicago due in part to cyclists riding at night without lights. all bike share bikes have lights built-in, so there's a huge safety advantage right there.

there are also usually a couple of bike fatalities every year in chicago due in part to cyclists taking undue risks like blowing red lights and stop signs and other wanton disregard for the rules of the road. my hunch is that bike share riders tend to the less aggressive side of the riding spectrum, and thus are less likely to engage in risky, traffic-law-flaunting behavior when they're riding.
Exactly - add to this the fact that the DIVVYs are heavy, low geared, upright bikes that discourage the crazy death defying speed demon within us all .

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I found this video to have quite a few nice explanations for why bikeshare users seem to be much safer than cyclists overall (weight and visibility of the bike and low top speeds are a big factor)

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Um okay. There is a huge hype machine behind bikeshare systems that advocates for them no matter what, all the time. If you've been riding a real bike this whole time -- decades before biking became fashionable -- you're an idiot. Only the people who just started biking really know about biking.

The fact is that bikeshare bikes suck to ride. The ride quality is ridiculous and if you live in a city with hills you'll break a sweat on a mild hill and the brakes are underpowered for downhills. The bikes build up way more momentum going downhill than any ordinary aluminum bike.
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Um okay. There is a huge hype machine behind bikeshare systems that advocates for them no matter what, all the time. If you've been riding a real bike this whole time -- decades before biking became fashionable -- you're an idiot. Only the people who just started biking really know about biking.

The fact is that bikeshare bikes suck to ride. The ride quality is ridiculous and if you live in a city with hills you'll break a sweat on a mild hill and the brakes are underpowered for downhills. The bikes build up way more momentum going downhill than any ordinary aluminum bike.
Agreed - move your ass to Chicago ;-) .

Great for the short haul, DIVVy is 30min before check-in required, I couldn't imagine using one for a long haul, or even a relaxing ride through the forest preserve.
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