ZYP
ZYP was a bike share program that operated in Birmingham from 2015 to 2019. The program was created REV Birmingham in partnership with the City of Birmingham, the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Program sponsors included Regions Bank, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and the Alabama Power Foundation. REV's Lindsey West was the program manager. The name and logo were developed by Big Communications.
Zyp was launched in October 2015 with the first of 400 bright green bicycles distributed to 25 stations. 100 of the bicyles include electrically-assisted pedaling. Birmingham's is the first bike share program in the United States to offer electrically-assisted bicycles. The bicycles, charging kiosks were designed by Michael Dallaire and provided, along with GPS-enabled management software, by Bewegen of Quebec, Ontario. The bicycles themselves were manufactured by Procycle.
During its first year, the program expanded from 25 to 40 stations. As of April 4, 2016 the system had 5,812 members and had provided 20,768 trips for a total distance of 27,379 miles. At that time there were 359 bikes in service and 31 kiosks in operation, most of which were equipped to accept payment for memberships.
By the end of its first year the ZYP program had enrolled 826 annual or quarterly members and sold 11,687 daily or weekly passes. Riders had logged a total of more than 81,000 miles ridden in 63,051 individual rides.
Funding for the ZYP program expired at the end of 2019. The Birmingham City Council's Transportation Committee negotiated with another micro-transit vendor to furnish electric bicycles, scooters, and/or mopeds for public use.
Stations
- Payment Kiosk: Birmingham Intermodal Station, 1600 Morris Avenue
- Payment Kiosk No. 1: Alabama Power building, 18th Street at 6th Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 2:
- Payment Kiosk No. 3:
- Payment Kiosk No. 3: Uptown, BJCC, 2230 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North
- Payment Kiosk No. 4:
- Payment Kiosk No. 5: Birmingham City Hall, Linn Park, Short 20th Street
- Payment Kiosk No. 6: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place
- Payment Kiosk No. 7:
- Payment Kiosk No. 8: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Kelly Ingram Park, 520 16th Street North
- Payment Kiosk No. 9: Regions Center, 1900 5th Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 10:
- Payment Kiosk No. 11: McWane Science Center, 216 19th Street North
- Payment Kiosk No. 12: Phoenix Lofts, 17th Street and 2nd Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 13: Fix-Play Lofts, 2300 1st Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 14: Innovation Depot, 1500 1st Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 15: 20th Street at 2nd Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 16: Regions Center, 20th Street at 5th Avenue North
- Payment Kiosk No. 17: Birmingham VA Primary Care Clinic, 24th Street at 7th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 18: Railroad Park west gate, Regions Field, 14th Street at 1st Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 19: Railroad Park east gate, 18th Street at 1st Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 20: Station 121, 118 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard South
- Payment Kiosk No. 21: Children's Hospital, 17th Street at 5th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 22: UAB Studio Arts, 2230 7th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 23: Kirklin Clinic, 2000 6th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 24: UAB Boshell Diabetes Building, 18th Street and 7th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 25:
- Payment Kiosk No. 26: UAB Campus Green south side, 1523 9th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 27: UAB McCallum Basic Health Sciences Building, 20th Street South at University Boulevard
- Payment Kiosk No. 28: Memorial Park Recreation Center, 524 6th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 29: Smithfield Library, 1 8th Avenue West
- Payment Kiosk No. 30: Chick Fil-A, 5 Points South, opened April 1, 2016
- Payment Kiosk No. 31: Phelan Park, 14th Street South and 14th Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 32: Hill Student Center, UAB, 1500 University Boulevard
- Payment Kiosk No. 33:
- Payment Kiosk No. 34: Martin Biscuit building, Pepper Place, 29th Street South at 3rd Avenue South
- Payment Kiosk No. 35: 41st Street South at 3rd Avenue South, Avondale
- Payment Kiosk No. 36:
- Payment Kiosk No. 37: Moe's Original Bar-B-Q, Lakeview, 729 29th Street South
- Payment Kiosk No. 38:
- Payment Kiosk No. 39: Caldwell Park, Highland Avenue
- Payment Kiosk No. 40: Rojo, Rushton Park
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 1:
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 2: Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3, Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North at 4th Avenue North
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 4: Birmingham Social Security Administration Center, 1200 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 5:
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 6: Memorial Park Recreation Center, 524 6th Avenue South, Titusville
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 7: Marconi Park, 24th Street at 6th Avenue North
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 16: 115 25th Street North
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 17: Birmingham Intermodal Facility, 1600 Morris Avenue
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 22:
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 25: Jefferson County Department of Health, 1400 6th Avenue South
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 33: Sloss Furnaces, 33rd Street and 2nd Avenue North
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 36: BBVA Compass' Harry B. Brock Administrative Center, 32nd Street and 7th Avenue South
- Wayfinding Kiosk No. 38: Forest Park Village, 3912 Clairmont Avenue South
References
- Davis, Bryan (July 20, 2015) "'Zyp' to be official brand of REV's BikeShare program." Birmingham Business Journal
- Stein, Kelsey (April 1, 2016) "3 new bikeshare locations make it even easier to Zyp around Birmingham." The Birmingham News
- Edgemon, Erin (October 10, 2016) "81,000 miles ridden during Zyp bikeshare's first year in Birmingham." The Birmingham News
- "Zyp bikes leaving Birmingham." (September 24, 2019) WBRC.com
External links
- Zyp website