Car2go’s firestorm over shrunken service area reawakens concerns about bikeshare coverage
The company is slicing its Portland service area by about a third.
Portland Bike Share
Portland inked a deal with Nike to launch the “Biketown” system by July 2016. But the effort to bring bike share to Portland began way back in 2007. We’ve covered every twist and turn. Browse the archives below…
Portland wins bike share grant — to study someone else’s bike share
$75,000 for bike share in Portland! Oh wait…
At Portland event, Spinlister CEO touts plan for private bike-share system
The user-owned bike share system due to launch in Portland in September says participants won’t have to pump the tires in any bikes shared on their network.
Bike share is coming to Eugene thanks to state grant award
Bike share is coming to Eugene thanks to an Oregon State Lottery-backed grant.
Next-gen bike sharing company Social Bicycles swings through Portland
The company’s key innovation: smart bikes that can be parked anywhere inside a service zone.
Spinlister to launch user-owned bike-sharing system in Portland this summer (updated)
Here’s the twist: every bike in the system would be independently owned by individual Portlanders,
Here are the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee’s top 10 priorities citywide
How do you think they did?
Portland’s low-car transportation web ranks 7th nationally, study says
The whole point of these new, rapidly growing tools is to stop “using a car” from being essentially the same as “owning a car.”
Now one of few large U.S. cities without bike sharing, Portland sets a new date
Of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas, only four are likely to not have bike sharing by the end of 2015: Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis and Portland.
The street fee, bike share, and Portland’s Big Pause
How the street fee killed Portland bike share.
Eugene bike share system lands near top of state grant list
It’s looking likely that Eugene will be Oregon’s first city with a public bike sharing system.
NYC investment company buys Alta Bicycle Share, hires former transit CEO
A local bike business that bootstrapped its way into the national spotlight and then ran into an avalanche of problems has sold.