Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Sharing

Alta Bicycle Share Has New Owners, New CEO, New Expansion Plans

By Stephen Miller | Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments

It’s official: Alta Bicycle Share, the company that runs Citi Bike, has a new owner, an infusion of cash, and a fresh face at the top — longtime transit executive Jay Walder. At a press conference this afternoon, the new team promised to correct Citi Bike’s blunders and double the system’s size by the end […]

Sources: Alta Bike-Share Buyout a Done Deal; NYC Citi Bike Fleet to Double

By Brad Aaron | Oct 27, 2014 | No Comments

The buyout of Alta Bicycle Share rumored since July is finally a done deal. Alta — which operates New York’s Citi Bike, Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare, Chicago’s Divvy, San Francisco’s Bay Area Bike Share, and several other cities’ systems — will be purchased by REQX Ventures, an affiliate of the Related Companies and its Equinox unit. The […]

Alta Chief: Bike-Share Expansions Unlikely in 2014

By Payton Chung | Jul 17, 2014 | 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 […]

Safety in Bike-Share: Why Do Public Bikes Reduce Risk for All Cyclists?

By Peter Jacobsen and Charles Komanoff | Jul 8, 2014 | No Comments

What if Yankees legend Yogi Berra had followed a season with 24 homers and 144 hits with one featuring 27 homers and 189 hits? Would the baseball scribes have declared “Yogi Power Shortage” because only one in seven hits was a homer instead of one in six? Duh, no. The headlines would have read, “Yogi […]

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SFCTA Report: Expand Bike-Share in San Francisco ASAP

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2014 | 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 | Jan 22, 2014 | 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: […]

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