CaBi stations being installed

Capital Bikeshare was busy yesterday installing stations. There are 7 installed already with one at the Anacostia Metro and another big one at 14th and U. They also have 829 members signed up. Suck on that Toronto and your 5 times as many citizens.

ABC 7/TBD has a story on it. The neatest thing I learned, the solar powered batteries can power the station for up to two weeks - in case of cloudy weather.

In other bike sharing news, Minneapolis will expand it's program with $200,000 in federal stimulus money from a program that aims to reduce obesity in low-income neighborhoods. How do we get on that gravy train?

And bike sharing is one of the few transit systems immune to the transit strikes in London and Paris.

In 2007, the first year of Paris's Vélib bike-sharing program, there were 694 bicycle-related accidents and five deaths.

As drivers and cyclists have gotten more accustomed to sharing the road, however, those numbers have declined, according to the Paris police. In the first half of this year, injuries to cyclists fell 5.7% from the same period a year earlier. There were no fatalities.

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[CyclingFool]

I watched the clip online last night. It was the first WJLA piece on cycling I can remember for a while w/o blatant falsehoods in it! :-)

I am excited about CaBi, though. I like the one-day membership option. Very convenient, esp. for tourists. Dublin had a similar one-day option, and I realized it would have been cheaper to do that and use the bikes for the free 30 minute window to get from place to place rather than pay for the city bus, but by the time I had that realization, I had nowhere left to go...