Category Archives: Bike Sharing
Milwaukee’s Schlitz Park Gets Tenant Bike Share And More
Downtown Milwaukee’s already bicycle friendly Schlitz Park office community picked bike to work week to launch a free bike share program. The tenant bike share program utilizes a fleet of vintage Schwinn Collegiates and Suburbans restored by DreamBikes Milwaukee, the non-profit bike shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just up the hill from the [...]
Biking to the National Bike Summit
OK, so I didn’t bike the whole way to Washington D.C., but I did manage the trip without a car. I rode my bike from home to General Mitchell Field Airport on Milwaukee’s south side. The weather was cool and pleasant, so I just wore my linen suit jacket, seersucker shirt, jeans and the Allen [...]
Windy City Annouces Big Bike-Share Program
Today Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to introduce an ordinance to the City Council to enter into an agreement with Portland, Oregon-based Alta Bicycle Share, Inc. to operate Chicago’s first large-scale bike-sharing program, which is envisioned as a new, affordable option to complement existing transportation choices. Alta beat out home town favorites B-cycle (and [...]
Madison B-Cycle To Hibernate For Winter
Madison’s B-cycle bike sharing system will be closing for the season on December 15th. B-cycle is closing the 2011 year with an impressive number of trips, users and stations. Total Trips – 17,940 Total Users – 6,412 Annual Members – 464 Active Stations – 27 Total Bikes – 265 I have other interesting usage statistics that [...]
