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Old August 14th 14, 08:18 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech,rec.bicycles.rides,rec.bicycles.misc
Garrison Hilliard
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Default Cincy Bike Share, now Red Bike, getting close

Cincy Bike Share, now officially Red Bike, is getting thisclose to
operation. As of today, six of the bike racks are in place.

They are at Fountain Square, the Freedom Center, City Hall, Sawyer
Point, Great American Ball Park and the Aronoff Center.

But the bikes are not in place. Not yet. Eventually 35 stations
holding
260 bikes will dot Downtown, Over-the-Rhine and Uptown.

So what is Red Bike exactly? Well, it's a bike share program. It's
like
a taxi for people looking for short trips around town. Or a bus. A
user
will be able to take a bike from one spot and go to another. Imagine
you are in your office downtown, and you need to get to a lunch in
Over-the-Rhine. You can ride a bike. Or if you have an early dinner
and
want to get down to a Reds game. You can ride a bike.

Just take a bike from one rack, and park it at another. The racks
will
be placed strategically to promote usage.

Tlike a good idea to me. And people who study this stuff.

In 2012, Cincinnati's Department of Transportation and Engineering
conducted a feasibility study that pointed to the urban core because
of
its population density, the mixture of housing and businesses and a
supportive environment.

"The Downtown/OTR area makes for a logical first deployment of bike
sharing in Cincinnati. ... Redevelopment in these areas has also
shown
a commitment to healthy and active lifestyles."

The study also liked Downtown's slow traffic, generally flat
topography
and well-connected streets.and pay attention, because as a person
who rides Downtown pretty
frequently, I can tell you cars and their drivers can do surprising
things. And helmets will not be part of the rental.

Red Bike has not determined the cost structure yet for day-fees for
an
annual membership, Barron said. That will be determined soon, as the
program should be up and riding sometime in September.

This spring, Mayor John Cranley proposed $1.1 million for the
program.
The City Council approved the money and things got moving quickly.

Up next for the rack locations are Horseshoe Casino, the Duke Energy
Center and eventually near the University of Cincinnati and the
hospital complex.

"We've been working hard over the last few years to add bike lanes
throughout the city, which tends to encourage new riders and make
people feel safer riding in the street," said Mel McVay, a Senior
City
Planner with the City of Cincinnati Department of Transportation &
Engineering. "Bike share is another important piece of that puzzle.
The
convenience of a bike share system opens up bicycling as an option for
people who maybe would like to be using a bike to get around, but
haven't yet taken that first step."

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...-otr/14061133/

"It's a system of transportation. It's not bike rental," said Jason
Barron, executive director of Red Bike told the paper when first
announcing the program. "It will fit in with taxis and the bus and
the
streetcar."

And riding in the city is fun. Just follow the rules in place for
cars
he idea is that it will be fast and easy and save the environment and

you will not need to find a parking place. Each one of those sounds

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Old September 3rd 14, 06:49 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech,rec.bicycles.rides,rec.bicycles.misc
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Default Cincinnati ranks in the top 50 for bike friendly cities

Cincinnati ranks in the top 50 for bike friendly cities

CINCINNATI -- A nation publication geared toward cyclists took note of
Cincinnati's bike friendly moves in recent years.

Cincinnati was ranked 35th out of 50 cities for "best bike city" in
the United States by Bicycling Magazine.

“There are many unspectacular but important things a city can do to
gain our consideration for this list," the magazine article states.
"Maybe you've heard of them, or maybe—given the pace of change these
days—you've already begun to enjoy them - segregated bike lanes,
municipal bike racks and bike boulevards, to name a few. If you have
those things in your town, cyclists probably have the ear of the local
government—another key factor. To make our Top 50, a city must also
support a vibrant and diverse bike culture. It must have smart, savvy
bike shops.”

For the Queen City, the listing notes the promotion and adoption of
the 2010 bicycle program, the first Ohio city to install protected
bike paths, and then September's roll out of the state's second bike
sharing program with Cincy Red Bike.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/...riendly-cities

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Old September 5th 14, 03:23 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Andre Jute[_2_]
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Default Cincy Bike Share, now Red Bike, getting close

On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:18:10 PM UTC+1, Garrison Hilliard wrote:
Cincy Bike Share, now officially Red Bike, is getting thisclose to


No doubt a worthwhile scheme. Thanks for the report, Garrison. Including the amusing bits:

In 2012, Cincinnati's Department of Transportation and Engineering
conducted a feasibility study that pointed to the urban core because
of
its population density, the mixture of housing and businesses and a
supportive environment.

"The Downtown/OTR area makes for a logical first deployment of bike
sharing in Cincinnati. ... Redevelopment in these areas has also
shown
a commitment to healthy and active lifestyles."


Holy ****! And then critics knock sociologists for spending vast sums on research to discover that people know the people they know. Those critics would have an apoplectic fit if they stumbled across the bike movement's "research" (and I'm not even talking about the lies of Krygowski and his Krowd of Klowns or, if you're being kind, their persistent incompetence with the statistics, and their deliberate mangling of the results).

You don't need research to tell you a redeveloped, mixed use (business and residential), yuppified downtown is the ideal high-density, pretentious-"lifestyle" milieu (notice the pretentious French word when the plain English "environment" is equally good and more effectively evokes of the dynamic). You just need to go walkabout, talk to a few people, put your mind in gear, consider motivation and consequence, and voila, you can make up the results of the "research" out of your head, and not be off more than a couple percentage points, and give away nothing in your levels of confidence.

Still, they arrived at the right decision, and a sheaf of "research" in hand no doubt helped to persuade semi-numerate pols to do the right thing.

Thanks for the giggle.
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