Saturday, October 14, 2017

Bike-friendliness survey

PeopleForBikes is a national bicycle advocacy group. They are conducting a community survey on bike riders' experience in their cities and towns. The survey, which asks both how bikeable our town is and how you think it's improving, forms part of their City Ratings report that will be published in spring 2018.

It is rather telling that Jersey City is on their drop-down menu for New Jersey but you have to enter Princeton by hand.

To have your opinion included, please complete the survey by December 8.



Tuesday, October 3, 2017

a few recent articles about bike share


Are there swarms of e-bikes in our future ? 

Washington could soon bypass Portland, Ore., as the American city with the highest 
share of bicycle commuters, due in part to growing competition among bike-borrowing
programs, according to census data and cycling enthusiasts. 

Five companies are vying for real estate in the capital's bike-share market, offering GPS-
tracked bikes that lock themselves without a central kiosk. The newest bike-share offering 
— Jump, which arrived last Monday — uses an electric motor to bolster manual pedaling, 
so riders do not have to break a sweat.