Today’s excellent film is a short documentary by Australian Sit-up Cycle on the Bicing program in Barcelona. The film credits the bikeshare program with transforming Barcelona from a car centric city to one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world. Bicing has been smart with how they’ve run their vehicle sharing program. They’ve [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bike Share’
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 [...]
Bike share concept that would add power to the grid
Talk about a convergence of green concepts. Designer Chiyi Chen has come up with a concept that combines bike sharing, renewable energy, and regenerative hybrid technology into one system. The Hybrid2 would use ultracapacitors to store the energy produced by a bicycle and feed it back into the grid when the bike is put back [...]
City staff bike sharing program creating a lotta buzz
Searching through Google news these past two or three days, I’ve come across a TON of mentions of the City of Austin Bike Sharing program. Kudos to them so far on the initial interest and coverage and let’s all hope this will translate into enthusiastic usage of the program. The Caffeinated Cyclist North Loop Neighborhoods [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dumbest Product of the Week- 12th Edition, Biomechanical Energy Harvester
This is a good time of year to be trolling for a nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week. Dozens of papers and magazines are doing year-end rosters of the best products introduced this year which gives me a chance to catch up on “innovations” I may have otherwise missed. This week’s winner comes courtesy [...]
Time Magazine lists Montreal Bike Share program as one of Best Inventions of 2008
Bike sharing has been around for a while with Yellow Bike as its most anarchist form and Paris as its most wildly successful incarnation (or at least most reported on.) But leave to the City of Montreal, home of North America’s longest running carshare program, to take the good idea one step further. Time has [...]
