Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Sharing

Clear Channel Drops SF Bike Share, Mayor Newsom Pledges Larger Pilot

By Matthew Roth | Dec 3, 2009 | 18 Comments

At a press conference this afternoon to celebrate the city’s first new bike lane in three years, Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Chief Nat Ford learned that Clear Channel had backed out of its option to implement a public-use bike share program in San Francisco. Ironically, just as Mayor Newsom was answering a question from […]

Santa Clara VTA Proceeds with Bay Area’s First Bike Share Pilot Program

By Matthew Roth | Nov 10, 2009 | 7 Comments

Despite the much ballyhooed talk by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom that his city will implement a public bike share pilot (two years of talk that has garnered numerous press hits), the first bike share program in the Bay Area will likely be implemented by the middle of 2010 in Santa Clara County by the […]

Seeking Stimulus Money For Bike Sharing, D.C. Looks Beyond Cutting CO2

By Elana Schor | Oct 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Transportation Planning Board (TPB), the Washington D.C. area’s metropolitan planning organization (MPO), recently made a pitch to the U.S. DOT for a share of the economic stimulus law’s $1.5 billion in innovative transport grants. Among the suggested projects was $13 million for bike sharing, enough to expand the D.C. program into a regional network […]

Montreal Brings Bixi Bicycle Share Demonstration to Golden Gate Park

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 3, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photos by Bryan Goebel. Were you one of the hundreds who tried out the Bixi bike share bikes from Montreal at Golden Gate Park yesterday? From what I could tell, they seemed to be a hit. The Brandenburger Foundation, based in Los Angeles, brought its solar-powered portable bike station with seven bikes to the park […]

Montreal’s Bixi Bicycle Share Will Showcase Program in GG Park Sunday

By Matthew Roth | Jul 31, 2009 | 12 Comments

Photo: Adrien B The MTA and City Car Share are welcoming the Bixi bicycle share program from Montreal, Canada, to San Francisco this Sunday to demonstrate how bicycle share could work if this city embraces it. City CarShare is using the event to conduct a user survey and provide information about the service to interested […]

Streetfilms: D.C. DOT Director Talks “Transportation Freedom”

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

Meet Gabe Klein, who was appointed to direct Washington D.C.’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) in December 2008. With a background including four years working for Zipcar, Klein was brought in to look at the city’s mobility problems from a fresh perspective. As he says: Cars are a part of our daily life here in D.C., […]

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