Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
Via HuffingtonPost.com from the Denver Post : American politicians are always good for a laugh: Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations …
There are controls all over town, so be care not to skip a red light (which you shouldn’t do anyway). I wish they would take that much attention of the motorists. El Periodico also has an article about it. Controls on Passeig de Sant Joan on Tuesday
ADN has an article with some statistics about bicing: As a result of the improvements, complaints and claims have fallen by 53%, with an average of 12.8 per 10,000 uses. Calls received in the service number to the subscriber have fallen by 32%. Now receive an average 29 707 per month and in 2009 was …
£140m bike hire scheme is the most expensive in Europe | News At £6 for two hours, Boris hire bikes are costliest in Europe Ross Lydall 23.07.10 Sponsored links Critics today raised concerns about the high cost of hiring a bike under the central London scheme being introduced by Boris Johnson. As in …
The London bike sharing program Barclay Cycle has a few videos up on youtube. Here is one to introduce the service:
Via Lilli Green :
Bike Week is coming: Bike Week is getting ready to offer, from 10 to 16 May, a whole host of free, bike-related activities. This year's novelty is that you'll be able to follow the event through Twitter, which shows just what a big part bikes have been playing on social networks. The Councillor …
I just noticed that bicing has a new website. Some of it doesn’t seem to work and they are still using the old map, which is rather horrible slow. And the news page still has no RSS feed. So nothing new really, lets hope they are still working on it.
At the moment they just do it for the US, but I hope this will come to Europe too. They also include trail data, which makes it even more useful. In combination with bicing this could be a brilliant tool for Barcelona.
It is snowing in Barcelona. Bicing is suffering too. Bicing patrocina els jocs olímpics d'hivern!, originally uploaded by marcpallares. Update: some more pictures