Last week the first North American public bike-share program debuted in Washington D.C. With 120 bikes at 10 self-service racks, SmartBike DC officially launched. This week the Streetfilms team took it for a spin.
Here are some helpful facts about SmartBike DC:
To use this bike-share program you must become a member for an annual fee of [...]
On July 15, 2007 Paris debuted the world's largest self-service "bicycle transit system" called Vélib outdoing previously designed bike share programs. Vélib is a balance of scale and functionality, clocking in with more than 20,000 bikes, and 1,451 docking stations, which are never more than 1,000 feet apart. As a result, Vélib is effectively [...]
It is a big week in Bike Share. Paris' velib program is turning one. The NYC DOT says it will test the bike sharing waters. And yesterday, the New York Bike-Share Project launched a five day bike share demonstration. It will wrap up Monday evening with a reception at City Bakery featuring DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan (and my Velib video will [...]
