Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about bike share

How Giving Bike Share Prime Real Estate Attracts More Riders

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 13, 2015 | No Comments

We’ve written before about how bike-share “station density” — how closely together stations are placed — is a key variable in how successful systems are in attracting riders. Here’s a new theory on how station locations can have an impact on bike-share use. Bill Lindeke at Streets.mn says it matters where stations are placed within […]

A Peek Into Metro Bike-Share’s Proposed Fare Structure

By Joe Linton | Nov 9, 2015 | No Comments

A Metro staff report available this week gives a peek into the proposed fare structure for the transit agency’s bike-share system, coming to downtown Los Angeles in 2016. Metro has contracted with Bicycle Transit Systems (BTS) to open a 60+ station, 1000+ bicycle system extending from Union Station to USC. The new report [PDF] recommends […]

LA Bike-Share Update: 2016 Opening On Track, With No Title Sponsor

By Joe Linton | Sep 17, 2015 | No Comments

A few new bike-share details emerged at yesterday’s Metro Planning and Programming Committee meeting. Overall, Metro bike-share is on track to open in mid-2016 in downtown Los Angeles with 1000+bikes at 60+kiosks. The bike-share item before the committee was just a receive and file update [PDF], with no action taken. Metro published a request for […]

Portland’s Bike-Share System Will Be an Interesting One to Watch

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2015 | No Comments

Next week, leaders in Portland will decide whether to move forward with a long-awaited bike-share system. Assuming it proceeds, Portland’s bike-share is going to be an unusual one. Michael Andersen of BikePortland has everything you need to know in a series of posts on the proposed system (check them all out here). He reports that […]

Bike-Share Transit Integration and Pricing in LA: What Do You Think?

By Joe Linton | Aug 4, 2015 | No Comments

There is a great new report out that shows that bike-share systems really are legitimate, full-fledged transportation facilities. The focus of the report is how bike-share interacts with other transit systems. The report is summarized in this excellent CityLab article. Researchers surveyed bike-share users in both Washington DC and Minneapolis. Bike-share users living in central […]