Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Sharing

Bay Area Bike Share Memberships Now on Sale

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 15, 2013 | 37 Comments

Bay Area Bike Share started selling annual memberships at noon today, and judging by the buzz on Facebook and Twitter, it looks like hundreds of people have already signed up. Annual members get a year of unlimited rides under 30 minutes for $88 (overage fees still kick in if you take more than 30 minutes). The first 1,000 […]

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Bay Area Bike Share Releases Pricing and Membership Details

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 26, 2013 | 66 Comments

Bay Area Bike Share just got more official with a new website, Facebook and Twitter account. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced the system’s new social media presence along with its pricing and membership details: Membership rates to join Bay Area Bike Share will be $88 for an annual pass, $22 for a three-day pass and $9 for a […]

Colbert Gets in on This Whole Rabinowitz Thing

By Ben Fried | Jun 13, 2013 | No Comments

It’s not quite as brilliant as Al Madrigal’s segment on the Daily Show last week, but Stephen Colbert’s riff on Dorothy Rabinowitz at the end of this clip is totally worth your time this morning.

SFMTA: New Curbside Space at Market and 10th Will Be a Bike-Share Station

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2013 | 15 Comments

In case you were wondering what would become of the newly empty curb space at Market and 10th Streets, where the traffic lane stripings were re-configured over the weekend, it turns out the SFMTA plans to put a bike-share station there. “With Bay Area Bike Share set to launch this August, the SFMTA saw an opening […]

“The Daily Show” on Citi Bike: “Doesn’t Anybody Have a Real Objection?”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 11, 2013 | No Comments

Forget the ridership numbers: you know you’ve hit the big time when Jon Stewart and company spend a full nine minutes satirizing you at the top of “The Daily Show.” The first segment, which leans heavily on the fact that European cities also have bike-share and pseudo-satirizes unfounded fears about the program’s safety, is funny […]

Meet Bay Area Bike Share

By Aaron Bialick | May 31, 2013 | 72 Comments

Update 4:53 p.m.: The SFMTA just launched a bike-share station crowdsourcing map (using, we should note, a tool from OpenPlans, Streetsblog’s parent organization). The agency wants “people’s comments on where they would like to see Bay Area Bike Share stations as well as what they think of the initial 35 station locations,” said spokesperson Ben Jose. It’s probably […]

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