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Streetsblog on the Road: Bike Share in Shanghai
The Chinese mega-city provides an example of great urban mobility, albeit with a side of authoritarianism.
January 23, 2025
Subsidies For Bike-Share Would Get Huge Bang For Small Bucks: Report
Classifying bike-share as mass transit could unlock a huge state revenue stream for the popular transportation mode.
June 5, 2024
Manhattan Pol Wants OMNY to Work With Citi Bike
Citi Bike could become even more popular if the MTA figured out a way to integrate it with the OMNY pay system.
June 8, 2023
Opinion: 10 Years of Citi Bike, 3 Lessons Learned
Happy birthday, Citi Bike. You've taught us a lot of valuable lessons. Here are three from the co-host of the War on Cars podcast.
May 29, 2023
Scooter Companies Talk Best Practices (Though Low Speed Limits May Be Counter-Productive)
Transportation companies want more Americans to ditch their cars for emissions-free travel — and they’ve figured out the ways that entice people to use electric scooters and bikes.
May 17, 2023
The Brake Podcast: What Does It Take To Start Your Own Bikeshare?
Most bikeshare rides taken on U.S. soil happen in a handful of gigantic cities, on systems maintained by big corporations. But at YoGo Bikeshare in Youngstown, Ohio, Ronnell Elkins and his team are building a bespoke micromobility option specifically for his neighbors — and hoping to create a model for other small cities to combat car dependency.
March 16, 2023
Beyond Ciclovia: Five Lessons on Sustainable Transportation from Colombia
Here's a deeply non-exhaustive list of five lessons about sustainable transportation I took home with me from a recent trip to Colombia, and why I can't wait to go back.
December 11, 2022
This Global Initiative to Increase Bike Access Can Teach the U.S. A Few Things, Too
A new initiative aims to put thousands of purpose-built transportation bikes in the hands of people in underserved countries — and in the process, sparking a conversation about the role of bike design itself in making green mobility accessible.
December 8, 2022
Pittsburgh Study: What If Your Every Mode Of Transit Was Free For A Year?
An innovative new pilot will give Pittsburgh residents free rides on all the shared transportation networks their city has to offer — and, possibly for the first time in the history of "universal basic mobility" pilots, they'll be able to access them all on a single platform.
August 30, 2022
Mayor Defends Busway Cuts, Citing ‘Community Concerns’ — Despite Improvements for Riders
Mayor Adams said he listened to the "community" when he decided to reduce the hours of two busways — but the community he's citing clearly aren't the bus riders whose lives he promised to improve just two months ago.
August 2, 2022
