The City of Austin is considering funding a public bikeshare program in the near future as part of the goals of the Master Bicycle Plan. Bikesharing, short term bike rentals with self check kiosks spread throughout the city or certain neighborhoods, has been credited with some pretty impressive results in other cities. BCycle, a national, [...]
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London Bikeshare flash mob does a spin class
There has been a lot news lately about bikeshare, and while it makes great short distance transport, it can also be fun. Take this flash mob spin class with the London Bikeshare, AKA Boris bikes. I’m not sure this is exactly a flash mob as they all arrive in a group together, but it’s still [...]
Friday Film Fun: Presentación Velo- City Sevilla
Earlier today, I mentioned that San Antonio is getting its own bikeshare service starting this weekend. Bikesharing has been embraced in several Spanish cities with impressive results. According to City of Seville reports, cycling as a share of the transportation mix has grown from 0.4% to 7% in just five years. That’s the equivalent of [...]
Bikesharing at the Alamo
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 [...]
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 [...]
