Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bay Area Bike Share

Alta Chief: Bike-Share Expansions Unlikely in 2014

By Payton Chung | | No Comments
Despite continually growing ridership, Alta Bicycle Share-operated bike-share systems across America will probably not be adding bikes or docks this year. The bankruptcy of Montreal-based Public Bike Share Company, known as Bixi, which developed and manufactured the equipment that Alta’s systems use, has disrupted the supply chain that numerous cities were pinning their expansion plans […]

Bixi Bankruptcy Delays Bay Area Bike Share Expansion Until Fall at Best

By Aaron Bialick | | 8 Comments
The expansion of Bay Area Bike Share into the Mission, the Castro, Hayes Valley, and Mission Bay planned for early this year won’t happen until fall at the soonest, due to the recent bankruptcy of Bixi, the company that supplies hardware and software for several American bike-share systems. Heath Maddox, the SFMTA’s bike-share program manager, broke […]

SFCTA Report: Expand Bike-Share in San Francisco ASAP

By Aaron Bialick | | 66 Comments
The SF County Transportation Authority issued a new report Monday to guide the expansion of Bay Area Bike Share, which sees 90 percent of its rides in San Francisco, despite the city encompassing half of the system’s bikes and stations. Among the recommendations in the “Strategic Analysis Report” [PDF] is giving the SFMTA greater independence to […]

Why TIME Magazine Got the Bixi Story Wrong

By Ben Fried | | No Comments
Major media have a habit of blowing bike-share problems out of proportion. Witness the 2009 BBC story that cast theft and vandalism as an existential threat to Velib in Paris. Five years later, Velib is still going strong. The most recent entry in the genre is Christopher Matthews’ misguided story on the Bixi bankruptcy in TIME. Headline: […]

Bixi Bankruptcy: What Does It Mean for American Bike-Share?

By Ben Fried | | No Comments
The Montreal-based equipment supplier for several American bike-share systems, including New York’s Citi Bike and Chicago’s Divvy, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. It’s unclear exactly how the restructuring or sale of the company known as Bixi will play out, but the bankruptcy filing could accelerate the transition to more robust and reliable hardware and software. […]
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