Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
Via lavanguardia.com and elpais.com: "Unas 450.000 catalanes utilizan a diario o casi a diario la bicicleta. En el año 2006 lo hacían poco más de la mitad, unas 246.000 personas. Es un incremento muy importante en el uso frecuente de la bicicleta. En este momento ya hay tantos usuarios diarios de …
Barcelona makes third on the Copenhagenize Index of bicycle friendly cities ( http://www.copenhagenize.eu/index/ ). Only Amsterdam and Copenhagen rank higher. Quote: "There were no bicycles in Barcelona a mere five years ago and now the city puts many Emerging Bicycle Cities to shame with their …
from Cycling Dope: Counting Cyclists in Barcelona: "Not bad at all. A Bicycle Counter in Barcelona, on Passeig de Sant Joan. We pass it every day on the way to the beach. It's the busiest bicycle lane in the city but it's slow these days with everyone on holiday." continue on Cycling Dope ...
Check out Bicing Spider: bicycle sharing data visualization (Beta) , a bicing visualization too for OS X. Bicing Spider: bicycle sharing data visualization from JP Carrascal on Vimeo. From the site: “This app will load a (static Google) map of Barcelona and will superimpose a visualization of …
bcn.cat reports: The City Council is installing specific traffic lights for bikes in order to improve the safety of cyclists. These are smaller, lower and make use of LED technology. Now people just learn to stop at red lights.
Good article on Situp-cycle.com: “Toss the Albatross: Bike share needs helmet choice” about how the helmet requirement holds back the bike sharing scheme in Melbourne. With an video report from a similar sized scheme in Dublin. I am pretty sure that bicing wouldn’t be the success …
via adn.es “La tarifa anual del Bicing se encarecerá un 15% en 2011”: MonthlyAnnual charge: 29.66 Euro + IVA 30 minute charge + 18% penalties: +16%
The DGDW Blog: How Green is Bike Sharing? : A knee-jerk analysis would say yes – you are exchanging a CO2 free bike for gas guzzler – therefore, it has be greener from a carbon emissions point of view. However, based on the city government’s numbers, few Bicing members are actually switching their …