"Bike Sharing Rapidly Expanding Across U.S.," courtesy of the Associated Press

Fast facts about bike sharing in other cities (assembled by Bikes Belong):

• Forty-three percent of Denver’s bike-sharing users said they replaced car trips with bike rides.
• Eighty-nine percent of Paris’ bike-sharing users said it allowed them to move around the city more easily.
• Bike sharing reduced traffic in Paris by five percent in its first year.
• Ninety-six percent of first-year users of Lyon, France's bike-sharing program had not ridden in Lyon before.

Recommended reading:

• "Bike-sharing program gearing up" – Chicago Tribune, Sept. 22, 2011, by Jon Hilkevitch
• Bike Sharing in the United States – Bikes Belong
• "Bike Sharing – My Gateway Drug" – Bicycling magazine, January 2012, by Bill Walsh

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