Starting today you can vote for my bike share project in the Pepsi Refresh Idea competition. You can login and vote at www.refresheverything.com/socialbicycles or vote through Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/pepsirefresh/ (search ‘sobi’). If we finish in the top 10 we will receive a $50,000 grant for the project. SoBi is also one of four finalists in [...]
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Bike to School day was a Bike Month promotion that I initiated before leaving DOT. I reached out to my friend Rachel who is a teacher at Middle School 51 and she set up a meeting with the principal, who embraced the idea. I then brought the proposed project to my boss at the DOT [...]
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I haven’t updated this blog in a very long time but I am still bike crazy. For the last year and a half I have been developing a bike share system that uses GPS, mobile communications, and a secure lock that can attach to almost any bicycle. For more information go to SocialBicycles.com and ‘like’ [...]
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There are a couple reasons why I haven’t posted as often this month. First, I think I am finished ranting. I feel that I’ve pretty much explained what biking means to me and going forward I want the focus to be on other NY cyclists. ’I Bike NY’ was never meant to be “I, [...]
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With car-free Times Square approaching its one month anniversary, I thought it would be a good time to link to the media coverage of the project. Overall, it seems the reaction of the press and the public has been pretty positive. Tourists and locals alike are enjoying the novelty of the new space, even though [...]
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