Read the Bike Share Station Planning Update December 2014

Take the Bike Share Philadelphia 2015 Survey:

Bike Share Questions



PHILADELPHIA WILL HAVE A B-CYCLE PROGRAM RUN BY BICYCLE TRANSIT SYSTEMS FOR APRIL 2015

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown and Council President Darrell Clarke co-sponsor Bike Share Approval Ordinance No. 14044900 on May 15, 2014 Read Ordinance here

It unanimously passes City Council on June 19. 2014.

Mayor Michael Nutter rides a prototype Bikeshare PHL bike for 2014 Bike to Work Day:

Philadelphia Bike Share Station:

B-cycle Bicycle Transit Systems

Read the Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial April 24, 2014:

Finally In Gear

Read the Philadelphia Inquirer Article, April 24, 2014:

Bike-share not coming to Phila. til spring

Read Mayor Nutter's Press release, April 24, 2014:

Announcement

PHILADELPHIA ISSUES REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR BIKE SHARE PROGRAM

October 25, 2013

It is envisioned that a system of 150 to 200 bike sharing stations and 1,500 to 2,000 bikes will serve an area that stretches from the Delaware River into West Philadelphia, from the Navy Yard through Center City to North Philadelphia beyond Temple University’s main campus. RFP Document

Philadelphia Bike Share Program Initial Service Area:

To begin late Summer early Fall 2014







Suggest your best bike share station location on the map! Do it Now!

Own a business or run an Institution. Respond to the City of Philadelphia's Request of Interest to Host and-or Sponsor Bike Share station(s): The Request

• Philadelphia Vélib - short documentary film

Shown Originally on MiND TV - WYBE 35.1 DTV, Thursday, January 28, 2010

Philadelphia Stories Project

August 2013: The Philadelphia Bike Share Strategic Business Plan is available .

The Complete Plan is now available. Read the Plan.

This plan was conducted by Toole Design Group and Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning during the months of February & March 2013 in response to the Request For Proposal.

City of Philadelphia Bike Share web site: www.phila.gov/bikeshare

Read about Bike Share in the August 2013 Grid Magazine:





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City to Sanction Bike Share

Mayor Michael Nutter to Ask City Council for $3,000,000 to start Program

Friday December 7, 2012

Philadelphia Inquirer:

Nutter to seek Council appropriation for Philadelphia bike-share program

Proposed system is small will not reach all constituencies.

Bike Share Philadelphia believes the system should begin covering at a minimum from Erie Avenue to the Navy Yard and from the Delaware River to 52nd Street.



5 years ago, on January 17, 2008 the Bike Share Conversation Started in Philadelphia with the Bike Share Forum

That conversation quickly became a loud roar to bring Bike Sharing to the City. Even with over 2,000 letters sent to Mayor Michael Nutter asking him to start those wheels rolling, very little progress has been made. Without the political will to make it happen, bike share is now only a whisper in the City.



• Bike Share Feasibility Study Is Complete

Read the Philadelphia Bike share Study Concept



YES to bike share!



The study verifies the viability of a Public Use Bicycle Program for the City of Philadelphia.

February 25 , 2010, the feasibility study for the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities managed by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and funded by the William Penn Foundation was released a year after the deadline requested by a Philadelphia City Council Resolution of June 2008.

The study states there is a market for Public Use Bicycles in Philadelphia. It suggests starting a program with 1,750 bikes in an area to cover Center City, University City and north on Broad Street to included Temple University. Then expand the system to include all of South Philadelphia, more of West Philadelphia , and more area north of Center City to a total of 4,500 bikes.







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