The City of Philadelphia and its partners at Bicycle Transit Systems are pleased to share anonymized Indego trip data with the public. The privacy of Indego passholders and users is very important to us, and information won’t be released unless the City can ensure that the identities of individuals or groups cannot be discerned and that their privacy is not compromised.
Toss it, flip it, turn it inside out, combine it with your own or someone else’s data! Tell us how many trips happened in the rain, or after midnight, or below 50 degrees – we want your help to delve into the data and reveal the hidden gems of understanding that will allow us to make Indego the best it can be.
We are releasing the data for the first six months of trips now, and in the future we will release trip data quarterly.
Indego turns 1 on April 23rd! To celebrate, we will party and grow. Later this Spring, Indego will expand service into new neighborhoods thanks to the William Penn Foundation. Be sure to follow @RideIndego on social media for special birthday week activities (think station pop-ups with goodies!), updates on new station locations as they are installed and new bikes as they are released to the streets.In the meantime, let’s take a trip down memory lane with 12 favorite moments from this past year.
Indego has come a long way in 2015. We started the year as a big idea with lots of promise, and in the last 12 months we got a name, a sponsor, a color, a map, 700 bikes, 73 stations, a cash payment system, 20+ staff, over 400,000 rides, and over 7,000 of you, our passholders, riders, and friends. You have been there every step of the way, enthusiastically cheering us on, and being supportive as we continue to learn and grow. Thank you!
2016 promises to be pretty exciting as well. We’re looking forward to our system expanding thanks to a William Penn Foundation grant, spending quality time with our new General Manager, and continuing to provide quality operations, marketing and customer service.
Thanks for making 2015 successful, and fun. Happy Holidays!
Tis the season to give back and our passholders did just that this past Monday. Thank you to everyone who came together to deliver and donate gifts to those in need at Project HOME. We had over $600 worth of donations and know that Project HOME truly appreciates your generosity.
Check out some of the photos below. Happy Holidays!
Our Better Bike Share Partnership Outreach team has been wrapping up the year with a few Spanish-language Urban Riding Basics classes in South Philadelphia.
Pati Gutiérrez, one of our BBSP Community Liaisons, spent the past few months meeting with different Latino immigrant-serving organizations to schedule Spanish-Language Urban Riding Basics classes at their sites. In December, we participated in Puentes de Salud’s Charla Program and Casa Monarca’s information session on Philadelphia’s different modes of public transportation.
Puentes de Salud is a nonprofit that promotes the health and wellness of South Philadelphia’s growing Latino immigrant community through health care and educational programs, among other things. Their Charla Program, for example, consists of weekly informal presentations on topics related to health; all offered in Spanish. Volunteers lead the Charlas programming and the meetings take place in the waiting room of Puentes de Salud’s clinic. On December 7th, Pati led a session on bike safety and Indego for roughly 25 people.
Casa Monarca promotes the preservation of Mexican culture and traditions through their programs, primarily focusing on the arts and education for the community. On December 8th, they hosted a Spanish-Language information session on transportation options, including SEPTA and Indego. Pati spoke to the group about how Indego works, safe riding in the city, and answered the group’s various questions. At the end of the event, she distributed helmets to the participants.
Do you work for an organization that serves the Latino community and would be interested in hosting a class? Do you know anyone whose dominant language is Spanish that you think would be interested in participating in one of these classes, or in any of our programming? If so, let us know and Pati will follow up with more information!
Over the Summer, the Better Bike Share Partnership team had a unique opportunity to partner with the Food Trust and Cadence Youth Cycling team to lead rides from the Food Trust’s Common Ground Marketplace (Broad and Mt. Vernon) to various urban farms throughout North Philadelphia. Through this partnership, we met many folks in the community interested in learning more about Indego and the Urban Farms movement.
First stop: We were set to visit the Philly Urban Creators (PUC) Farm on July, 12th. We had a fun group that day, including three sisters from the community (they took a break from shopping to go on the ride with us).
As we rode to the farm, riders rang their bells and waved at folks as we passed. The Cadence youth engaged with riders in conversation, telling them about their program and how fun it is to bike in the city. Once we arrived at the PUC farm, we received a warm welcome, met the organizers and many community members of all ages involved in the effort. They gave us a tour of their farm and talked to us about their overall goals. The produce that they are growing in North Philly was being sold at the The Common Ground Market Place and other farmers markets throughout the city.
We made many great connections on this ride. One of the participants, Susie Paige, happened to be a member of GirlTrek Philly and invited us to coordinate a group ride later in the year with 10 members of the GrilTrek crew. When asked about her experience with Indego, Susie shared, “the ride was great. It was a wonderful way to visit the urban garden. I took my first solo Indego ride today. Did very well thanks to the GirlTrek training.”
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia does outreach and education on behalf of Indego, and their work is made possible by the Better Bike Share Partnership, an initiative funded by the JPB Foundation, which seeks to create a socially equitable and replicable bike share model for Philadelphia and beyond.
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