Hubway Gets Helmets: Vending Machines to Be Placed at Four Stations
Since Hubway launched in 2011, the successful bike sharing system has struggled with one issue: How to provide helmets. South End Patch News
Hubway Gets Helmets: Vending Machines to Be Placed at Four Stations
Since Hubway launched in 2011, the successful bike sharing system has struggled with one issue: How to provide helmets. South End Patch News
Hubway Passes 1 Million Rides
Boston’s bicycle share service has been in operation since July 2011. South End Patch News
Hubway Closes in on 1 Million Rides
By: Bret Silverberg With the reach of Boston's bicycle share system growing this year, Hubway is on track to soon cross the 1 million ride threshold South End Patch News
Report: Boston Getting More Bike Lanes, Hubway
Boston will be getting more bike lanes and Hubway bike share stations, the Boston Herald reported Tuesday, just two days after a visiting MIT scientist was struck and killed while riding her bike in the Kenmore Square area. The city plans to add up to 20 miles of new bike lanes and 20 new Hubway kiosks and might also look to install cycle tracks on major roadways from Roxbury to the Public Garden, Transportation Commissioner Tom Tinlin told the Herald. Last week, a new Hubway station opened at the recently built Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Charlestown Navy Yard, and Boston Bikes Director Nicole Freedman told Patch that another kiosk is planned in the Hayes Square area. With plans to install more stations in South Boston, Roxbury and other locations, the total number of Hubway options could soon approach 100, the Herald reported. Also in the works are more divided bike lanes, like the one on Western Avenue in Brighton, and cycle tracks—bike paths that separate bicyclists from motorized traffic—on Charles Street, Malcolm X Boulevard, Seaver Street and around the Public Garden, officials told the Herald. With plans to step up the bike-friendly features in Boston, there are still concerns about the safety of bicyclists, particularly following the May 19 death of Kanako Miura, an MIT researcher from Japan. Miura was reportedly struck by a motor vehicle while riding her bike near the intersection of Beacon Street and Charlesgate West at around 3:30 p.m. Several media outlets have reported that police are looking for a garbage truck that may have been involved. In March, officials announced plans to install new warning signs, reflectors and lane markings along busy Commonwealth Avenue in an effort to improve safety for bicyclists following the 2012 deaths of two Boston University students, both bicyclists who were struck by vehicles in separate incidents. The city also recently installed protective guards on 20 Public Works trucks to prevent bicyclists from getting crushed in a collision, the Herald reported. Boston Police Capt. John Danilecki told the Herald that most of the recent fatalities have involved trucks or buses and that, even when in a bicycling lane, cyclists should assume large vehicles can’t see them and use extra caution. SOUTH END PATCH: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates South End Patch
New Hubway Stations Planned for the South End
Boston’s bike-sharing service Hubway announced this week that more than 75 percent of its bicycle stations are open and operational. In the South End, three stations from previous years will be back, including the Tremont Street station in front of the South End Library, one at Tremont and Berkeley Streets, and Columbus Avenue at Mass. Ave. Three new stations are planned for the South End, including Washington Street at Rutland Street, Boston Medical Center and Washington Street at Waltham Street. “After a very snowy winter we are thrilled to announce that Hubway is open for business,” the company said in an announcement. “Our team will continue to add stations and expect to be fully deployed by mid-April.” The current Hubway footprint is 112 stations and 1100 bicycles with several updates to the 2012 configuration: Boston: Additional docking points installed at 10 of the most highly utilized stations, including Congress/Sleeper, Post Office Square, Beacon/Mass Ave, and Charles Circle Summer/Arch station has moved one block to the corner of Franklin/Arch and has added 12 docking points to accommodate demand TD Garden/Legends Way station has moved to the sidewalk along Causeway St at Portal Park and added 7 docking points New station at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s Navy Yard facility Brookline: Washington Square will get a station in metered parking spots along the median of Beacon St (to be installed after the Boston Marathon) New station in on-street parking spots along Harvard Ave in the Kennedy Crossing area of Brookline, providing a critical link between Coolidge Corner and Allston Cambridge: New station at the Radcliffe Quad, at Garden St/Shepard St Planned station for the Porter Square T plaza Somerville: New station at Highland Ave/Somerville Hospital New station at Teele Square/Elm St New station adjacent to Tufts at Packard Ave/Powderhouse Blvd Ball Square station moving down the block to Bristol Rd at the intersection of Broadway SOUTH END PATCH: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates South End Patch
Hubway System to Reopen in April
There’s still snow on the ground and it still feels like the dead of winter, but a staple of summer in Boston will be back online before you know it. Bicycles will be available throughout the Hubway bike sharing system the first or second week of April, according to Nicole Freedman, director of bicycle programs for the city of Boston. In the South End, three stations from previous years will be back, including the Tremont Street station in front of the South End Library, one at Tremont and Berkeley Streets, and Columbus Avenue at Mass. Ave. Three new stations are planned for the South End, including Washington Street at Rutland Street, Boston Medical Center and Washington Street at Waltham Street. Freedman also said that Hubway officials still have their sights set on setting up a network of stations in Jamaica Plain. “We’re very optimistic,” she said of a JP expansion. She said the JP stations would be opened in late summer. Thirty to 50 stations will be reopened throughout Boston leading up to the April full system launch, Freedman said. SOUTH END PATCH: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates South End Patch
Hubway Rides Replace 13 Percent of Car Trips in Boston
Boston’s popular three-season bicycle share system has done more than provide residents with a quick, cheap mode of transportation, it’s taken a few cars off the road in the process. Nicole Freedman, director of bicycle programs for the city of Boston, said 13 percent of the 675,000 rides taken in the first two years of the Hubway system are “car replacement” rides, according to survey data collected by the city. In other words, those riders signaled that if not for their Hubway bike ride, they would be driving, Freedman said. That amounts to 87,750 rides that were taken on a bicycle as opposed to in a car. The Hubway system has been available to the public for about 240 days per year in its first two seasons, Freedman said. The system, which closes during winter months, opened in Boston July 20, 2011. SOUTH END PATCH: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates South End Patch