Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Bikesharing

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

ValleyBike Demonstrates Viability of Bike Sharing In Smaller Cities

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 9, 2019 | No Comments

Pedal-assist electric bicycles help users cover longer distances in a more rural part of the state.

Bluebikes docked at South Station in downtown Boston.

Bluebikes Negotiating Expansion to Five Suburbs, Including Newton and Chelsea

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 24, 2019 | No Comments

A memo to the Newton City Council reports that Bluebikes has made "an attractive offer" to expand to Newton and five other municipalities in the region.

Bluebikes System Approaches Its 10 Millionth Ride

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 17, 2019 | No Comments

Before the end of this week, the Bluebikes bikesharing system, which has been operating since 2011 and has been expanding its reach across the metropolitan area ever since, will celebrate its 10 millionth trip. Though the system has been operating for nearly 9 years, almost a fifth of the system’s historic ridership has occurred this […]

A map of recently installed stations (in blue), pending (yellow) and planned (in green) Bluebikes stations in the city of Boston as of July 2019. Courtesy of the Boston Transportation Department.

Boston Transportation Department Announces New Bluebikes Expansion

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

Mayor Marty Walsh and the Boston Transportation Department have announced planned sites for over a dozen new Bluebikes stations, which will expand the city’s bikesharing network into West Roxbury and Mattapan and add more infill stations in high-use neighborhoods like the South End. “By the end of 2019, Boston will install more than 50 new […]

A map of Blue Bikes stations in Dorchester as of June 13 illustrates the long-delayed dock locations, in gray, proposed for T stops on the Red and Fairmount lines. Source: Bluebikes.com

Dorchester to Get Better Blue Bikes Connections to the Red Line

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 17, 2019 | 2 Comments

The City of Boston is finally poised to build a long-awaited Red-Blue connection (no, not that one): new Blue Bikes stations have finally been permitted for installation at four Red Line stops in Dorchester. “After nearly a year of working with the T on permits, we recently completed the process for seven locations in Boston, […]