City Of Boston: Ten Years Of Public Bike Share Celebrated This Week

Press release from the City of Boston:

July 27, 2021

At an event in front of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, they unveiled a new “unicorn” bike. The bike features a unique design created by Helen Deng, Caroline Cedano, Tino Vo, and Elaine Chung at Artists for Humanity. The bike frame features 400 bike icons, each icon representing 10 bikes in the system today. The fender design includes a stylized “10” pattern to represent buildings and bridges in the Metro Boston area.

In 2018, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts became the title sponsor, supporting a massive expansion of the network and rebranding the system  as Bluebikes. Since then, seven additional communities  have joined the Bluebikes system: Arlington, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Salem, and Watertown. Bluebikes are now available across an area of over 95 square miles with 400 stations and 4,000 bikes.

“Bluebikes has been a critical addition to the transportation options available in Greater Boston,” noted Chris Dempsey, Chair of the Brookline Transportation Board. “Today, Bluebikes is one of the most popular bike share systems in the country, and it serves commuters, residents, students and visitors in neighborhoods across the region. We applaud the work of so many who have made this anniversary possible, and look forward to the next decade of this thriving, vital system.”

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