 |
|
|||||||||||
 |
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|  What is Bike Share? Bike share is a network of self-serve bicycles that can be used by the public at any time. Stations are located every few blocks and operate 24 hour a day, 365 days a year. Grab a bike, return it to any station and you're done. Bike share programs exist in 25 cities around the world and new ones are popping up every month. Bike Share Demonstration Sites Come kick the tires on great share systems from around the world and learn more about this transportation option. Bike share will be on display at Summer Streets August 8, 15 and 22 and a few additional dates and locations below. Summer Streets 7 am – 1 pm Saturdays
DOT issued a request for demonstrations to all major bike share companies worldwide to showcase bike share technology, three vendors answered the call. These demonstration areas will be more like exhibits than true bike share. They will let New Yorkers see, touch and feel the whole bike share set-up, from the docking kiosks to the check-out mechanisms to the bikes themselves. The public will be able to take the bikes on short “test drives” near the demonstration areas. About the Companies BIXI – serving Montreal BIXI currently has 271 stations, and the first phase of the system will include no fewer than 300 stations and 3,000 bikes. Strategically located and concentrated near Montréal's nerve centres, the stations are separated by only 300 metres on average. BIXI's second phase expansion will begin this summer, adding 2 000 BIXI bikes and 100 new stations in the boroughs of Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Villeray/Saint-Michel Parc-Extension, and Le Sud-Ouest. More stations will also be added in Outremont and Rosemont- La Petite-Patrie to complete the deployment in those boroughs. In all, the service will count 5,000 bikes distributed among 400 stations. http://www.bixi.com (English and French) BCycle B-cycle is a collaboration between three major players in three industries: Humana, Trek Bicycle Corporation and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. They will implement Denver's bike share program starting with 500 bikes at 30 to 40 stations throughout the city beginning this summer. Denver's program will be funded initially with a $1 million donation from the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee. http://www.bcycle.com EcoTrip |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|
|