Weekend video: World’s biggest bike share
Capital Bikeshare is the largest bike sharing system in the United States, but do you know where the world’s largest is? Paris, with 20,600 bikes?
Nope; it’s in Hangzhou, China, and this Streetfilm shows how the Chinese are using its 51,500 bikes to take 240,000 trips a day.
Hangzhou is smaller than New York City, so a 50,000 bike sharing system would be a good and entirely achievable goal for New York. Meanwhile, Hangzhou is striving to grow to 175,000 bikes by 2020.