{"id":261145359,"date":"2013-04-11T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261145359"},"modified":"2013-04-11T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:22:39","slug":"does-bike-share-make-bicycling-more-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261145359","title":{"rendered":"Does Bike Share Make Bicycling More Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Philly Mayor&#8217;s Office of Transportation and Utilities<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A recent study examines the ridership levels Montreal\u2019s BIXI Bike Share program over the course of its two-year implementation.&nbsp; Specifically, the researches investigated whether bike share would affect the number of people that ride bicycles.&nbsp; Researchers tracked usage among residents at the launch of the program, at the end of its first season, and at the end of its second season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1903\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bikeshare-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1903\" alt=\"bikeshare-graph\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bikeshare-graph.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The likelihood of bicycle riding has increased in neighborhoods with Bike Share Stations. (Graph Courtesy of The Atlantic Cities)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The results showed that Montreal residents who lived near a BIXI station were not only more likely to ride a bike compared to everyone, but they were also more likely to ride a bike at the end of the second season.&nbsp; In short, this means that bike share will increase the likelihood of bike riding and not only serve existing cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/phillymotu.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/03\/does-bike-share-make-bicycling-more-popular\/\">https:\/\/phillymotu.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/03\/does-bike-share-make-bicycling-more-popular\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Philly Mayor&#8217;s Office of Transportation and Utilities &#8230; A recent study examines the ridership levels Montreal\u2019s BIXI Bike Share program over the course of its two-year implementation.&nbsp; Specifically, the researches investigated whether bike share would affect the number of people that ride bicycles.&nbsp; Researchers tracked usage among residents at the launch of the program, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261145359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Bike Share Make Bicycling More Popular?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261145359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261145359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261145359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261145359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261145359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261145359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261145359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}