This weekend, bikesharing will officially come to Texas, but it will be San Antonio who kicks off the kiosk driven, short term rental program. On Saturday, San Antonio will be launching bikeshare in partnership with B-Cycle, a national bikesharing company. Austin’s 2009 Master Bicycle Plan calls for a citywide bikeshare program by 2020, and last [...]
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B-Cycle offers the possibility of turn-key bike share in Austin
Yesterday, bike share company B-Cycle stopped in Austin to demo their kiosk style, self-serve bike rental system. Their demo was part of a City of Austin initiative to investigate creating a public bike share program in Austin. Currently, City staff participate in an employee only bike share program, but the 2009 Master Bike Plan calls [...]
B-Cycle bike share makes a demo stop in Austin today
Bike share programs are popping up all over the country, and the City of Austin to get in on the action. Today, the City will be hosting B-Cycle, a project of Humana, Trek Bicycles, and ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky that launched it’s first bike share program in Denver this year. They appear to [...]
San Antonio getting public bike share, should we be envious?
This weekend, an Austin on Two Wheels reader set me news that the City of San Antonio is moving forward with a public bike share program to open up later this year. For those unfamiliar with bike share, it is a program that lets you check out bikes from self serve stalls at various locations [...]
City of Austin launches staff bike share program
This week, the City of Austin launched a pilot bike share program gear towards city staff to reduce vehicle emissions for short trips. Staff will be able to reserve bikes online and check them out whne they need them. Add this to the Austin CarShare program the City is doing to reduce greenhouse gases through [...]
Meet B-Cycle partner Alex Bogusky at SXSW on the 13th
Speaking of bikeshare concept B-Cycle which we wrote about yesterday, one of the brains behind the concept will be speaking on it at SXSW next Friday. Alex Bogusky, Chairman of Ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky will be at SXSW Interactive to talk about the concept. To quote their media release: In increasingly turbulent times, [...]
Bring B-Cycle Velib-style Bike Sharing to Austin?
Marsha Ungchusri sent the following submission in to us. B-Cycle is a Bike Sharing concept nearly identical in function to Velib in France. It’s a corporate collaboration between health firm Humana, Trek Bicycles, and ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The site looks promising, but it isn’t backed up with quite enough information to make [...]
