B-cycle rides up 75% from last fall with free membership and new stations
Boulder B-cycle has been Boulder’s exclusiveÌýnon-profit bike share system for almost nine years.ÌýWith 300 bikes and more thanÌý40 stations operating 24/7 in and around Boulder and main and east ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder campuses, Boulder B-cycleÌýoffers a convenient, reliable and safe alternative transportation option for everyone.
The Environmental Center has partnered with B-cycle to offer ALL ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ studentsÌýÌýbeginning in fall 2019. The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder student pass includes unlimited 30-minute trips for a whole year and has introduced more than 1,500 first-time student members to bike sharing at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. These new riders helped trips by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ affiliates increase by 75% from fall 2018 to fall 2019; ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ riders have taken nearlyÌý25,000 tripsÌýby Boulder B-cycle since classes began in August 2019!
B-cycleÌýinstalled three new station locations on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ main campus in 2019, expanding the number of stations serving ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to 13 and making sure that no location at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is more than ¼ mile (a five-minute walk) from a Boulder B-cycle station. The Rec Center location was a collaboration with Google and Ralphie’s Green Stampede where attendees at a ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Buffs game voted on the location.
The connectivity of all these ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ stations means that the average time of a bike-sharing trip between all of them is only 10Ìýminutes, making Boulder B-cycle an extremely fast way to travel from place to place. The most-utilized B-cycle stations since the start of the 2019-20 school year are all at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½: Center forÌýCommunity, Williams VillageÌýand Folsom andÌýColorado,Ìýwith the most highly ridden route during this time being C4C to Williams Village.
Redistribution of B-cycles from station to station is a great way for the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder communityÌýto earnÌýPIPsÌý- Positive Impact Points.Ìý.ÌýAt the end of each month, riders have aÌýbalancing score which is the net total of all positive and negative redistribution behaviors from B-cycle trips.ÌýLearn more about PIPs at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder.