In terms of bike-sharing networks across the country, Capital Bikeshare is beating all possible competitors.
With D.C., Arlington and two Maryland counties in on Capital Bikeshare, now it’s Fairfax County that’s thinking of joining the bike-sharing rage.
Welcome to the party, New York. You’re only a year late, but hey, whatever.
Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is in town today to deliver the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy to a Americans for the Arts’ annual Arts Advocacy Day. But before delivering the speech at the Kennedy Center this evening, Spacey stopped by the White House for a tour — and check out how he was getting around. Spacey posed in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on top of a Capital Bikeshare bicycle, joking on his Twitter account that his tour “had a very small carbon footprint.”
DCist reader Bharat Khanna captured a bunch of workers performing an installation outside the Smithsonian Metro station this morning. What were they putting in? More Capital Bikeshare docks!
The New York Times called it a “new phenomenon.” Greater Greater Washington trumpeted that it “will change everything.” Mayor Fenty talked about his big head. All part of the hype surrounding today’s grand opening of Capital Bikeshare, which replaces SmartBikeDC and promises more than 100 bike sharing stations in the District and Arlington featuring over 1,100 sharable bikes for area cyclists.
Photo by akabyam. If you’re like us, you probably enjoyed DDOT Director Gabe Klein’s appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show earlier today, where he talked in depth about DDOT’s new Capital Bikeshare program, among other things. Klein told Nnamdi that the system — which will provide D.C. and Virginia subscribers with about 1,000 bicycles to share — will open registration next week. Klein told Kojo that he believes that Capital Bikeshare “will culturally change the…
There’s been a lot of talk about Capital Bikeshare recently, mostly due to the program’s massive network of proposed sharing stations. But one question that we hadn’t had answered yet was what kind of transition customers of the existing SmartBikeDC program could expect once the new system gets off the ground. That’s a little bit clearer now — an email sent to members of SmartBikeDC by DDOT indicated that existing customers will be offered a…
A couple of weeks ago, DCist told you about the naming contest for D.C. and Arlington County’s new regional bike sharing service, set to launch in the fall. DDOT asked the public to vote on a new name, offering a list of more than a dozen options, including everything from “ShareCycle” to “Bikington” to “George.” As it turns out, D.C. area cyclists like their names … real boring. DDOT tweeted this afternoon that the new…