Watching Barcelona's bike sharing system since 2007
via bcn.es - Traffic fatalities in the city drop by 20% : "While motorcycle- and moped-related accidents have dropped by 1% and 16% respectively, the number of bicycle-related accidents has risen, representing 3% of all vehicles involved in accidents. With more than 106,000 bicycle journeys made …
Via el pais: “Muere una ciclista en Barcelona arrollada por un camión” The cyclist was using bicing on the cycle-lane on C/Diputació. The truck driver turned right crossing the lane and hitting the bicing user. The 49 year old woman was killed instantly. More coverage: el pais: "Muere …
via abc.es: Bicing amplía el horario nocturno tras cerrar el año con un 30% más de viajes : "El servicio municipal de alquiler de bicicletas "Bicing" ampliará dos horas más el horario entre semana, hasta las 2 de la madrugada, después de cerrar 2011 con un aumento del 30 por ciento de los viajes, ha …
via bcn.cat “Bicing will have a compulsory, 4-euro insurance policy”: "Bicing users will have to take out a mandatory 4-euro insurance policy that covers third-party claims, first-party damage and injury, and legal assistance. This is in addition to the rise in the Bicing charge from 35 …
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 …
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 …
Interesting article on Münchenierung: “Perspective of cycling as barrier or facilitator” Interesting stuff in the 'upcoming section of the Academic Journal Transport Policy. A Australian study found qualitative evidence for the fact that the public perspective of cycling can be an …