bicingwatch

bcn.cat: Gairebé 1 de cada 5 barcelonins té bicicleta pròpia: L'última enquesta de qualitat de la ciutat revela que el 18,5% dels barcelonins tenen bicicleta privada. Els aparcaments per a bicicletes i l'ampliació dels carrils bici han fet que el ciutadà doni una nota de 6,6 sobre 10 a la mobilitat …

via heraldo.es “El servicio Bizi supera los 7 millones de usos desde su inicio”: "En 2011, el servicio Bizi sumó 3.200.000 usos más y llegó a los 7 millones de desplazamientos, desde que comenzó en 2008. El año pasado, se amplió el servicio, llegando a 130 estaciones, 1.300 bicis y …

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 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 …

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 …

 Suprageography: has a nice graph about the effects of Bikes, Strikes, Snow and Ice on a public bike rental scheme.

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 …

I decided to stop api.bicingwatch.com, because it was too much work for too few visitors. I have uploaded the source code to github, where you can also find a recent dump of the data. The data covers more than one year of statistics, which might be useful for other projects. You can find the project …