Congratulations for the bikesharing project at UP

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines
March 30, 2016

We congratulate a group of students in UP, who pooled their talents and resources to have a bikesharing project for their last mile. (Featured in a segment of Green Living of Paolo Abrera at ANC - UP Bikeshare)

From UP Edu - bikesharing project in UP

It is such a great initiative and commendable at that for setting up a system.  Our LGU are starting with bike lanes.  But it has not transformed bike as a viable mass transport system.  In China, Vietnam, Amsterdam and other parts of the world biking, which is a green initiative is mass transport system, equal or of the same significance as bus or train.  Our DOTC has not made a breakthrough to develop such a system.

It is notable that the students have made  a low cost system to make this work.  In NYC the cost to set up a system cost NYC $5,000 (about P200,000 each) for a bike.

There are only about 30 users and the number has not increased and they discovered that not many are subscribing to this idea because of perceived safety concerns.  (Yes after seeing a lot of news on bike accidents. There was one in bisikleta iglesia last Holy Thursday)

Again, UP bike share congrats.

Understanding Bikeshare and BRT (Bus Rapit Transport) and How they are Interconnected

"Mens sana en corpora sano" Sound mind in a sound body.

Bus Rapid Transit in Asia: From Quantity to Quality

View more presentations from EMBARQ - The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport

BRT and bikeshare are interrelated. The BRT speeds up the pedestratian commute. They are brought to nodes where there are bikeshare facilities. Instead of the jeepneys and taxis, the commuter instead use the bikeshare facilities. Brilliant..ehh.

Jorgeusbiker has shared this SlideShare presentation: Rotterdam Central Station bicycle parking

Hey, Jorgeusbiker has suggested the following SlideShare presentation for recyclists_20l0 and friends.  This is part of the bikershare program in Rotterdam.  I hope you find this interesting.. I hope MMDA staff will read this to help rid traffic problem in MM. Biking as integral part of commuting and mass transport system. "I think you will find this presentation useful." Rotterdam Central Station bicycle parking… This is the vision for the new Central Station in Rotterdam. Design of the experience of bicycle par... View presentation Want more from SlideShare? Go Pro To change email settings on SlideShare, login to your account or contact SlideShare support for help.

Jorgeusbiker has shared this SlideShare presentation: Economic Benefits of Bicycling

Hey, Your friend Jorgeusbiker has suggested  to Recyclists _2010 and friends the following SlideShare presentation for you. I hope you like it and share it "I think you will find this presentation useful." Economic Benefits of Bicycling… Ginny Sullivan of the Adventure Cycling Association, presented a talk on the economic benefits of bi... View presentation Want more from SlideShare? Go Pro To change email settings on SlideShare, login to your account or contact SlideShare support for help.

Articles, More on Bikeshare from the Internet

I am posting for the interest of our friends, websites on bikeshare abroad.  This could be a solution to our mass transport woes.

bike-sharing.blogspot.com/ -

munbikeshare.wordpress.com/

www.nyu.edu/sustainability/campus.projects/bike.share/

bike-sharing.blogspot.com/

news.harvard.edu/gazette/.../harvard-backs-bike-share-program/ -


bikesharephiladelphia.org/

www.capitalbikeshare.com/how_it_works -

www.streetfilms.org/the-biggest-baddest-bike-share-in-the-world-hangzhou-china/

jorgeusbiker

Bikeshare in the Philippines

The username of this blog is bikeshare.  You might be wondering why?

Elsewhere in the world, in Europe and USA, large companies and wealthy individuals are promoting bikeshare.

Bikes are encouraged as means of commuting. A communter subscribes to a service, and he can, using his subsc ription card to get a bike from a station, ride it to the next point, locks the bike to an automatic self service locking mechanism for the next biker to use.  There are numerous nodes in the city where commuters can pick up bikes, lock them up and so on.  A nice way to conserve energy,lessen global warming and pollution.

The system  is called BIKESHARE...

Maybe someday, somebody would have the sense to have the same system installed here - it is a form of social entrepreneurship to save the planet.

But for many poor workers, especially construction and factory workers, many are shifting to (mountain why, because they are cheap and affordable) bike commuting.  Using a bike to go to work returns the investment for the bike in 6 months at most (200% ROE a good investment!).  But sadly, these bikers are subject to pollution and unsafe riding conditions because of:   poor enforcement of the helmet rule, lack of safety on the part of bike riders themselves, lack of safety training by motorbike riders, inconsiderate and reckless fx and jeepney drivers, lack of facilities and safe roads for bikers.

There are firefly rides to drum up support and we hope the maturity of people and their support for biking shall continue to improve and grow stronger,,

BIKESHARE

Whose Bikes Are These?

For sale din daw ito kasi magnenegosyo ang may ari.  Para kung sakali daw may gastusin pag siya ay magkakasakit.   Hmmmm?   Ok ba iyon?

Sa atin ba ito?

Di pa bayad ang mga Campy parts kay VM

Atin ba ito?

Mga madadayang mga bikers

Nabalitaan ko ang bike na ito ay nagkakahalaga ng P28,000. Iyon daw ang sabi sa Ms. For sale kaya ?ehehe...

Can you identify the owner of these bikes?

June Birthday Celebrants/Ride Sponsors

This coming Sunday, the 3 June birthday celebrants wll sponsor food and and swimming pool hot spring bath in Los Banos.  They are sir VM, Luis( our Pres and bionic man) and bikeshare (me)  I hope this does not start a fad for every birthday celebrants. Assembly time is at 5 am at Jollibee Unishoppe and we take off at 5:30,  Happy happy birthday to sir VM tomorrow who will be golden boy (kay de la Hoya stables now?

 

VM is our patron and No. l supporter and has sold us many cheap parts and bikes.  Long life to all the Birthday celebrants