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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

How will bikeshare perform in a post-covid city?

Maybe pretty well. From The Cityfix: Reviving Bike Sharing as a Reliable, Low-Carbon Mobility Mode Unlike public transport, the pandemic…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Laura Beattie

NACTO Shares Global COVID-19 Transportation Response Data

  Cities around the world are trying to figure out the best way to react in today’s strange new world…
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Aug. 04, 2018 / Colin Stein

China’s Bike Bubble Aftermath

From The Atlantic, via PT correspondent Michael Alexander, one of two dozen artful (and depressing) images of the aftermath of…
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Jun. 14, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

More Mobi; More Affordable Mobi

Making Mobi, Vancouver’s bike share provider, bigger and more affordable to more people is a great idea. Many thanks to…
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Sep. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Bike-Share Fiesta: Salamanca – 2

Karole Sutherland writes from Spain:   SALAMANCA We are visiting Salamanca, Spain and I couldn’t help admiring the clear demarcation…
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Sep. 16, 2016 / Gordon Price

Bike-Share Fiesta: Valenica

Tony Valente ends the bike-share tour of Spain in Valencia:     VALENCIA JCDecaux manages Valencia’s bike-share system – Valenbisi. Bike-share stations…
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Sep. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

Bike-Share Fiesta: Salamanca

Tony Valente reports this week on bike-sharing in Spain.   SALAMANCA Off to Salamanca, home of one of Europe’s oldest…
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Sep. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Bike-Share Fiesta: Madrid

Occasional PT correspondent Tony Valente was in Spain a few months ago and sends in this report on bike-sharing in…
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Aug. 16, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image – Public Art With Mobi

Located on Cambie between 8th and 7th, in front of Home Depot (one of six panels shown). Odd, and delightful,…
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Aug. 15, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

How We Get Around

One person taking a few minutes to park the Mobi and check up on the virtual world; another strolling with…
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Aug. 11, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Multi-Mobi

Ubiquity in the transportation mix. Here’s a Mobi doing the multi-mode thing on a bus rack. Note that the clever…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Mobi By the Early Numbers

Mobi is still pretty small with 36 stations (so far) and roughly 390 bikes (growing daily).  And young — at two…
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Aug. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: Single-trip Pricing for Bikeshare?

From NextCity: I am an infrequent bike-share user. For one, there are no Pronto stations in my neighborhood in Seattle.…
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Aug. 01, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Gonna Do the Mobi, Baby

It’s not hard to find a Mobi on the move.…

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