Denver’s Two-Wheel Revolution
This Thursday, April 22, Denver’s (and possibly the nation’s) first large-scale citywide bike sharing system will celebrate its kick-off with a number of events at Civic Center Park. A collaboration between Humana, Trek, and Boulder-based ad house Cripsin Porter + Bogusky, the Denver B-cycle system should be turned on and fully operational by noon that same day.
Now, if only we could get Zipcar, the car sharing service, to come to Denver.
Become a Denver B-cycle member, click here.
Not that I don’t love Zipcar (being from the east coast) but we have our very own Occasional Car…http://www.occasionalcar.com/… so no need to even have a car. Yay
I don’t think that Alastair knew about Occasional Car, did you A? Thanks for the tip, Corey!
Woo Hoo….I love it! Now my special friend can bike ride with Joanne and I — he doesn’t own a bike. I know, not very “native” of him.
[...] Alastair was an early convert to Denver B-Cycle. It took me longer, largely because I don’t mind walking everywhere. But I just joined, and last night was to be my very first night using a B-Cycle. I signed up Friday online and was told that while my membership card would not arrive for a little while (understandably) I could use the credit card that I’d registered with in order to take out a bike. It was not to be. I inserted said card at the B-Cycle station at Boulder and 16th in the Highlands: not recognized, no membership. As I waited on hold with B-Cycle headquarters I walked over the Highland Bridge to the station at 16th and Platte. The nice gentleman on the other end of the phone told me there was a glitch in the system and that it wasn’t fixable right now. However, I could sign up for a $5 one-day membership that he would reimburse to my credit card. Done. Except that when I tried to take out a bike the system froze. No luck. Alastair advised me there was a station across the park at 16th and Little Raven. There I finally met with success. I sailed off down the Cherry Creek Trail (on the pedestrian side; I’m still getting acquainted with bicycling etiquette) to meet Alastair at Sketch Wine Bar for a glass of vinho verde, served up by the ever-friendly J.D. Red Lights over the bar at El Diablo [...]