Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Bikesharing

A ValleyBike station on the UMass-Amherst campus. Courtesy of the University of Massachusetts.

Latest Round of Street Grants Focus on Safe Streets, Bikeshare Expansions, and Snow Removal

By Grecia White | Aug 5, 2022 | No Comments

This latest round of grants awarded $16.4 million, the largest amount so far, primarily supports efforts grounded in making streets safer for everyone by reducing vehicle speeds and also investing in the equipment municipalities need to maintain their streets and facilitate safe active transportation.

A CharlieCard on top of stacked dollar bills

Free Passes For Boston’s Main Street Workers Boost Transit, Bluebikes Ridership

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 8, 2021 | No Comments

Workers who got a $60 CharlieCard rode transit an average of 8.3 times during the first four weeks of the program, while workers with a smaller $5 CharlieCard took only 2 transit trips in the same period.

Bluebike station locations in 2010, 2016, and 2021. When the system launched a decade ago, it primarily served higher-income, whiter neighborhoods in central Boston. However, thanks to new stations, non-white and lower-income residents of these cities and towns now enjoy more equitable levels of access to the bikesharing network.

Inventories Take Stock of Growing Access to Bluebikes, Safer Bike Routes

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Thanks to system expansions into more diverse neighborhoods, by 2021, non-white residents living in Bluebikes communities are slightly more likely to live near a bikesharing station than white residents.

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Report: Bigger Bike Budgets Boost the Boom

By Aaron Short | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments

The Biden administration should pour billions of dollars into a variety of bike projects because the investment will generate thousands of jobs while also obviously greening the way Americans get around, advocates said this week, citing a new report on the economic benefits of cycling investments.

Map of new Bluebikes stations to be installed in Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood later in 2021.

Boston Announces Bluebikes Expansion Into Hyde Park

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 23, 2021 | No Comments

The city expects to begin installing the new stations in September.

Bluebikes docked at South Station in downtown Boston.

Bluebikes System Celebrates 10th Anniversary By Smashing A Ridership Record

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 26, 2021 | 1 Comment

The Bluebikes system has set a new a single day trip record of 15,335 trips.

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