Capital Bikeshare celebrates first anniversary

The Bikeshare program has proved more popular than expected in the year since the cherry red machines debuted on the streets of Washington and Arlington. It has 15,982 annual members, its bikes make an average of 4,000 trips each day and the total number of trips taken hit 1 million Tuesday.

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Sept. 20, 2010

Christophe Tulou, director of the D.C. Department of the Environment, spreads his arms before a group of bikes before Mayor Adrian M. Fenty kicks off the largest bikesharing program in the country with a news conference and a short bike ride.

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Sept. 20, 2010

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty kicks off the bikesharing program with a news conference. More than a quarter of households in the District don’t own a car.

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Sept. 20, 2010

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, foreground, hops on a bike as he kicks off the bikesharing program.

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Sept. 20, 2010

Volunteers ride off to their assigned stations after the bikesharing program kicks off.

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Oct. 4, 2010

Officials from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Transportation and the General Services Administration gather to announce the federal bikeshare program. From left, DOT Undersecretary Roy Keinitz, Director of D.C. Department of Transportation Gabe Klein, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and OPM Director John Berry pose with bikes available for their employees.

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April 22, 2011

Jessica Marquier stops to drop a bike off at a Capital Bikeshare rack at 21st NW near Pennsylvania Avenue in the District. She uses bikes to run errands around town.

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April 20, 2011

Lauren Adamo gets a bike from the Dupont station to ride back to her apartment in Foggy Bottom. The busiest Bikeshare docking station is where Massachusetts Avenue intersects with Dupont Circle, where more than 40,000 trips have originated.

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April 22, 2011

Alex Fuentes moves bikes to different locations as needed. Capital Bikeshare is expanding, adding more bike racks around the city.

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April 22, 2011

Alex Fuentes uses a computer to check on the number of bikes at different locations around the District.

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April 22, 2011

Darren Jones, station technician at Capital Bikeshare, checks out bikes in a warehouse in the District.

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Sept. 21, 2011

Madukaego Williams-Holliman, who has been given Bikeshare privileges as part of a program studying the therapeutic effects of biking on the mentally ill, unlocks his bike for the first time. He lives in the District, works in Greenbelt and has a gym membership in Fairfax. The bike will drastically cut his commute times.

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Sept. 21, 2011

Madukaego Williams-Holliman adjusts his new helmet.

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Sept. 21, 2011

Dorothy Williams tests her bike skills as Elliot Stubs and Marya McQuirter watch.

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Sept. 14, 2011

Capitol Bikeshare bicycles lined up in their stalls in the District and ready to go. Membership costs $75 for a year, $25 for a month, $15 for five days and $5 for 24 hours.

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Sept. 14, 2011

The program will open 32 docking stations in new locations in the District this fall, increase the size of 18 stations and add 265 bikes, bringing the total number to 1,365 in the District and Arlington. Arlington hopes to add 30 stations in the Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, Virginia Square and Ballston areas, and the program may expand to Rockville and Shady Grove next year.

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