San Francisco and Chicago are expected to release requests for proposals from bike-sharing companies this year.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
Officially launched in 2007, the Paris bike-sharing program today is nearing 50 million unique rides annually.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
Portland announced its intention to move forward with a bike-sharing system last week.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
Chicago is also planning one of the largest bike-sharing programmes in the country, with 3, 000 steeds.
Bike-sharing increases the number of trips by bicycle in a city and improves the cycle culture.
How successful bike-sharing is this summer will partly determine whether the next mayor expands, shrinks or scuttles the program.
One of more than 500 bike-sharing systems around the world, New York's is the biggest in the United States.
The company pioneered the bike-sharing system adopted in New York but had parted ways with its original software designer.
Fast-forward to the recent past and every green blog worth its solar-powered servers was celebrating the bike-sharing program in Paris.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
Of course in India, as in Europe, bike-sharing will likely be subsidized.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
The world's largest public bike-sharing system is in Hangzhou, China, where it's estimated there are 69, 500 bikes and close to 3, 000 docking stations.
These are not the first bike-sharing programs in the United States.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
It also spawned a modern wave of bike-sharing, this time done more professionally: Worldwide, there are now 300 other bike-sharing programs modeled after the Parisian system.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
In the United States, modern bike-sharing launched with a pilot at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008, which led to an official program there in 2010.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
With more cycling pathways in the works, more bike-sharing stations set to open and additional businesses offering guests or clients bikes to borrow, Buenos Aires is set to become more bike-friendly than ever.
StreetsPAC will provide greater flexibility than what advocates can expect from some of the nonprofit organizations that already vocally support amenities, such the city's growing network of bike lanes and its impending bike-sharing program.
By selling ad space on the bikes themselves and on bike-sharing stations, bike-sharing providers (sometimes municipal transit authorities, sometimes private companies, sometimes a joint venture between the two) discovered they were able to cover their costs.
FORBES: Bike-Sharing Grows Up: New Revenue Models Turn a Nice Idea into Good Business
"I haven't biked since I was 13, and I was avoiding buying a bike, so this is a really good opportunity to find out how it'll go, " said Jessica Sheridan, 36, an architect who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side and is a bike-sharing program member.
Bike sharing is a win-win-win proposition in almost every city in which it is introduced.
Ms. Sadik-Khan and other supporters of bike sharing hold out hope that direct experience with the new program will make customers of even those hostile to the coming of the CitiBike.
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