The promise of Bike Share--and How New York City's Bike Share Saved Itself | Fastcompany

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For Walder, who had left his position in Hong Kong amid controversy over a delayed high-speed rail project, fixing Citi Bike’s problems and leading its expansion were relatively small-scale problems. While he was the CEO of the MTA, the subway alone had moved more than 5 million people each day. Citi Bike, the largest of Alta’s programs in nine cities, had on its busiest day that month facilitated just 38,956 rides. It was the potential impact that had made the job appealing. "I thought it would be an opportunity to shape a whole industry that was in its most nascent stage," he says.

Instead of looking at bike sharing as "an extension of the corner bike shop," Walder wanted to make it "a part of the transit system of major cities." Trains and buses, with their set schedules and stops, left an unmet gap in mass transit that, he believed, bike sharing could fill. "The patterns where we’re living and working have become completely different than what was imagined 100 years ago when the subway was created," he says. "Bike sharing is creating effectively personalized mass transit. The idea that my trip is defined by station has been removed."

MoBikeFed comment: Kansas City B-Cycle celebrated its third anniversary this year. We're still waiting for the second bike share system in Missouri--which city will it be? St. Louis, Columbia, Springfield, St Joseph?

http://mobikefed.org/2012/04/bike-share-kc-bike-share-coming-kansas-city...

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