Thank you for your interest in Healthy Ride. Healthy Ride is Pittsburgh’s bike share system that provides public access to 500 bikes at 50 stations, designed to offer a one-way transportation option, similar to other public transit systems.
This kit will provide you with some core statistics of Healthy Ride’s operations, links to public ridership data, and hi-res, print-ready images.
THE BASICS
- Healthy Ride celebrated it’s soft-launch on May 31, 2015. All 500 bicycles and 50 stations were placed and activated over the month of June 2015.
- Healthy Ride reaches more than 12 different Pittsburgh neighborhoods including stations in areas of Downtown, the East End, Oakland, the North Side, and the South Side.
- Healthy Ride is owned and operated by Pittsburgh Bike Share, a 501(c)3 non-profit.
- Pittsburgh Bike Share was founded in December of 2012. The organization was created due to mounting interest in implementing a municipal bike share system in Pittsburgh from a collection of local leaders: planners at the City of Pittsburgh, business leaders at Walnut Capital, and bicycle/pedestrian advocates at Bike Pittsburgh.
- For more information on Pittsburgh Bike Share’s history and it’s mission click here.
MEMBERSHIP & RIDERSHIP: Year One
- More than 90,000 bike trips have been taken by Healthy Ride users during its first year of operations.
- More than 30,000 individuals registered in Healthy Ride’s first year.
- More than 2,200 individuals registered as monthly members in Healthy Ride’s first year of operations with an average of 250 monthly members per month.
- Healthy Ride does not offer annual memberships. Individuals can choose to start and stop their monthly membership at any time, but are free to keep their account open year round.
- Ridership data is posted quarterly to the Healthy Ride website.
STATIONS & OPERATIONS
Healthy Ride’s solar-powered stations consist of an average of 19 docks, plus a kiosk that can be used for registration, finding nearby stations, seeing real-time bike availability, and more. Healthy Ride users with smart phones are encouraged to download the mobile app nextbike to register, rent, update account information, and see real-time bike availability.
Many Healthy Ride stations are conveniently located near Port Authority bus and T stations making it a convenient commuter connection. Healthy Ride employs 1 rebalancing van that can accommodate 12 bikes, and is used to redistribute bicycles between 9am and 5pm, 7 days a week though scheduling can change based on peak ridership times and seasons. Bicycles are redistributed in response to real-time data.
Healthy Ride operates 24/7, 365 days a year. In order to accommodate a smaller ridership during the winter months, Healthy Ride removes and stores 200 bicycles from November through March. All 500 bikes remain in circulation throughout the remainder of the year.
Any person who purchases a monthly pass will receive an RFID card that can be used for easy rental and returns. Each monthly member also receives and information packet containing pertinent safety information, a BikePGH bike map of all the recommended bike routes, a list of discounts at local businesses, and other helpful operations information.
SYSTEM MAP
View all active stations on the Healthy Ride station map.
Click HERE to download a spreadsheet of all stations (as of the end of the 2016), including latitude and longitude coordinates.
Station information is also available on the nextbike mobile app.
MOST POPULAR STATIONS: Year One
- S. 27th St. & Tunnel Blvd. (Southside Works)
- Liberty Ave. & Stanwix St.
- North Shore Trail & Fort Duquesne Bridge
- Forbes Ave. & Market Square
- 10th St. & Penn Ave.
RIDERSHIP DATA
Healthy Ride releases ridership data on a quarterly basis publicly accessible via the Healthy Ride website.
LOGO & PHOTOGRAPHY
Click here to download .png files of Healthy Ride’s logos.
Click here to access high-res print ready images for publication. Unless otherwise noted, please credit Pittsburgh Bike Share.
Additional Tools & Resources
- Healthy Ride Blog: Features news announcements, including major station/system alerts as well as upcoming events, rider profiles, and more.
- Healthy Ride Frequently Asked Questions
- See press coverage of Healthy Ride on our In the News page.
- Healthy Ride on Twitter @HealthyRidePGH, #TakeHealthyRide
- Healthy Ride on Facebook
- Healthy Ride on Instagram, #TakeHealthyRide