Springwise: Urban bike-sharing is coming to North America in the form of Bixi, the new high-tech public bike system developed for the city of Montreal. Bixi follows the standard bike sharing principles: users take a bike from a stand, ride it to where they want to go, and drop it at another stand when they’re done. To make the concept even more attractive to users, bikes will be equipped with RFID tags so that users can track availability online; real-time information is beamed to the web from the system’s solar-powered bike stands.
Bixi brings urban bike-sharing to North America [Springwise]
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The most exciting thing about the higher profile of bike sharing is that the systems are finally making their way to more Canadian and American cities. Washington, DC is perhaps fitting as the home of one of the first U.S. bike share programs, SmartBike DC, with ten bike rack stations.
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