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 me [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Paris’
Bring B-Cycle Velib-style Bike Sharing to Austin?
Velib in trouble? Perhaps they could learn a few things from Austin CarShare.
I was reading a BikePortland story yesterday about the Velib system, and was dismayed to hear that the operator, advertising company JCDecaux, had recently stated the system was in dire straits. To quote the original BBC story:
Remi Pheulpin, JCDecaux’s director general, says the current contract is unsustainable. “It’s simple. All the receipts go to the [...]
Making our streets places for humans, not just cars
“New mobility aims towards a human system. Old mobility aims at a car system.” Eric Britton, New Mobility Agenda
Streetsblog posted a great video at the end of last week that covers many of the innovative things being done in Paris (France, not Texas) to make streets safer and more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians alike.
The City [...]
