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One year, one million rides on Capital Bikeshare

On the one year birthday of Capital Bikeshare, a member took the system’s one millionth ride. Wow.

The system has far exceeded expectations. Program managers had hoped for 8,000 members and 500,000 trips in the first year. Instead, they have 18,000 members and 1 million rides. Like I said, wow.

 

The bike fleet one year and one million trips ago

My Signature

Darren Flusche
League Policy Director

Flusche joined the League in April 2009 and has a B.A. in history from Syracuse University and a Masters of Public Administration with a concentration in public policy analysis from New York University.


This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 4:32 pm and is filed under Bike sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “One year, one million rides on Capital Bikeshare”

  1. Streetsblog Capitol Hill » Today’s Headlines Says:
    September 21st, 2011 at 8:36 am

    [...] Happy Birthday, Capitol Bike-share! Who Knew You’d Grow Up to Be This Awesome? (Bike League) [...]

  2. Khal Spencer Says:
    September 21st, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    Make that two wows, Darren. Nice job, DC!

  3. Mark of Online Backup Says:
    October 2nd, 2011 at 1:34 am

    Wow! What a success. Congratulations! Membership exceeded 10,000 more than the anticipated 8,000.
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