bike-sharing

BitLock — Throw Away Your Key, This Is An Awesome Bike Lock With Truly Useful Smartphone Links

The creator of BitLock has a vision of networking and sharable objects. This vision speaks directly to today’s bike culture on a cool, down-to-earth, and yet contemporary-techno dimension. The particular sharable objects are a bike and a BitLock. A BitLock is a bike lock which is easily controlled by a smartphone. Urban bike culture has been waiting [...]

BitLock — Throw Away Your Key, This Is An Awesome Bike Lock With Truly Useful Smartphone Links was originally published on Bikocity.

Boston Bike-Sharing Program is Rockin’ It

D.C.’s Capital Bikeshare bike-sharing program has been a great success (despite its rather small size). Paris’ Velib bike-sharing program rocked the world with its tremendous, unprecedented success. Barcelona’s Bicing program was much more successful than originally anticipated. And so on and so on. Now, it’s being reported that Boston’s new bike-sharing program is a great success, even much more successful than originally anticipated.

By Zach | September 9, 2011 | City Planning, Transportation | 2 Comments |
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Bike-Sharing Program in Wrocław, Poland — 1st Ride

I wrote a pretty extensive introduction to Wrocław’s new bike-sharing program about a month and a half ago, with 18 photos and 2 videos included. Now, I said that I would write an update once I tried it out and I finally have. Marika (my partner) and I were walking to the store today and decided on the way to try it out if there were any bikes available (every other time we went to try it out there weren’t bikes available or, once, the system was down). It was quite simple to use, the process being…

By Zach | August 1, 2011 | City Planning, Transportation | 4 Comments |
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