Hubway recently partnered up with Bicycle Benefits to bring hundreds of discounts to our registered users! For those signing up online for Annual or Monthly membership, we will mail a BB sticker to you in your new member packet. But if you’re an existing member, we have three opportunities this week to come out and grab one on the fly:

Wednesday, May 15th

Charles MGH Hubway Station
8:30AM to 10:00AM

Harvard University’s CommuterChoice Program’s
Bike to Work Appreciation Breakfast
Outside of Au Bon Pain
1360 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
7:30 AM to 9:00AM

Thursday, May 16th

Dewey Square - Standing next to The Coffee Trike
8:30AM to 10:00AM

Friday, May 17th

Intersection of Silber Way & Comm Ave
Near Blandford MBTA Station
6:00PM to 7:30 PM
Look for someone in a Hubway shirt!

Just roll up to any of our three locations this week, say hello to our Hubway representative (you’ll see him), and show your key fob to get your very own Bicycle Benefits Sticker. Simply mount the sticker on your helmet and you’re entitled to discounts at local businesses all over town!

For a full list of participating businesses, visit: http://www.thehubway.com/bicycle-benefits

The Hubway, Metro-Boston’s bikeshare system, is proud to announce a new Monthly Membership offering. As with Annual Membership, the Monthly Membership is available at www.thehubway.com/signup and Monthly Members will receive a key in the mail. This key allows the user to bypass a transaction at the station and to proceed directly to the bicycle. By simply sliding the key into the dock, the bicycle will release and be ready to ride.

Similar to the MBTA’s Charlie Card, the Hubway Monthly Membership will be valid from the first day of the month to the last. Also like the Charlie Card, your membership is only good during a single month. If you activate your key on the 15th, your membership still expires at the end of that month. Renewing is a snap..simply insert your expired key into any dock to release a bicycle and the monthly fee will be automatically charged to the credit card associated with your account.

No visit to the website needed, it’s that easy!

“The Monthly Membership offers the convenience and savings of annual membership but with flexible, monthly terms,” said Hubway general manager, Scott Mullen. “It’s perfect for students or anyone who wants to try Hubway on for size.”

The cost of a Monthly Membership is only $20. Those who decide to upgrade to an Annual Membership after trying Hubway for a month will receive a $20 credit toward the $85 annual cost. Simply log in to your member page and click the ‘Change Plan’ button.

Members of the Press – email ‘media@thehubway.com’ if you’d like to speak with a Hubway representative or someone from any of the participating municipalities (Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville).

Joining together two of the region’s early signs of spring, Hubway and the Boston Red Sox Foundation have teamed up to commemorate the bike share system’s “Opening Day” re-launch on April 8, 2013.  The rolling relaunch celebration will feature Hubway team members circling Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline on a celebratory route.  Hubway members that greet the Hubway team along this route will receive a free Boston Red Sox tee shirt and/or a free day pass for Hubway. We’re even sending one Hubway member to the Red Sox Opening Day home game.  And of course, everyone can ride to the game. The Red Sox Foundation bike share station is right in Kenmore Square, which is where the party begins!

Route below:

Kenmore Square (11:00AM to 11:45AM)

JFK Crossing Brookline (12:30PM to 1:15PM)

Central Square Post Office (1:45PM to 2:30PM)

Davis Square (3:00PM to 3:45PM)

Boston Public Library (4:15PM to 5:00PM)

Come join us for the celebration! It’s springtime in New England and it’s time to ride…

Stay tuned to www.thehubway.com, www.facebook.com/hubway, and our Twitter feed (@Hubway) for up to the minute info on schedule/route.

There are many exciting changes for spring 2013! The current Hubway footprint is 112 stations and 1100 bicycles with several updates to the 2012 configuration:

Boston:
- Additional bikes installed at many of the most highly utilized stations, including:
o Congress/Sleeper,
o Post Office Square,
o Beacon/Mass Ave
o Charles Circle
o Stuart St at Charles St
o Boylston at Arlington
o Newbury St / Hereford St
o Cross St. at Hanover St.
- Summer/Arch station has moved one block to the corner of Franklin/Arch and has added 12 bikes to accommodate demand
- TD Garden/Legends Way station has moved to the sidewalk along Causeway St at Portal Park and added 7 bikes
- New station at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s Navy Yard facility
- Marathon disruptions: Boylston/Fairfield and Boylston Berkeley will not be installed until after the Marathon cleanup is complete (estimated date week of 4/21). Boston Public Library will be removed on 4/9 and re-installed the week of 4/21.

Brookline:
- Washington Square will get a station in metered parking spots along the median of Beacon St (to be installed after the Boston Marathon)
- New station in on-street parking spots along Harvard Ave in the Kennedy Crossing area of Brookline, providing a critical link between Coolidge Corner and Allston

Cambridge:
- New station at the Radcliffe Quad, at Garden St/Shepard St
- Harvard University – DeWolfe/Cowperthwaite station is moving due to construction, final site TBD
- Planned station for the Porter Square T plaza

Somerville:
- New station at Highland Ave/Somerville Hospital
- New station at Teele Square/Holland St
- New station adjacent to Tufts at Packard Ave/Powderhouse Blvd
- Ball Square station moving down the block to Bristol Rd at the intersection of Broadway
These are just the spring updates..stay tuned for more surprised later in the season. Be sure to download our Spotcycle app to get real time updates on your smart device. Thanks for making Hubway metro-Boston’s #realtransportation network!

This article was posted on BostonMagazine.com on May 2nd, 2013

By Eric Randall | Boston Daily

Hubway, Boston’s bikeshare system, announced in a blog post this week that it will now offer $20 monthly membership in addition to their short term and annual offerings. This is pleasant news for a few groups of people. Among them: college students and anyone who wants to try out the Hubway on a more sustained trial basis before taking the year-long plunge.

Previous to the announcement, monthly memberships seemed (to this writer and Hubway user anyway) like a notable absence in the membership offerings, which skipped from a 3-day access pass to an annual membership. Other big city bikeshares, like D.C.’s offer the monthly rate. It’s a good way for someone considering Hubway to decide whether they’re really going to “save sOoOoOo much money on T fare by just taking Hubway to and from work all the time,” as a certain Boston Magazine employee (who took two buses to get to work today despite the 70 degree weather) may or may not have thought to himself once upon a time.

Also, given Hubway shuts down for the winter and Boston’s collegiate herds migrate elsewhere for the summer, the monthly memberships might make more sense for university students, who are, realistically, only going to use it for April, a piece of May, September, October, and November. (That calculation will change if Hubway manages to make it year-round.)

The monthly membership comes with cool features. Like annual members, you get the big-kid pass that means you don’t have to play with the station kiosks, and if you use it after your membership date is up, Hubway just charges you for another month. (Okay, so if you accidentally incur an extra $20 charge because you forget that your membership ran out, you might actually find this really annoying.) Also, if you do opt for a monthly membership to sample it and decide that you actually use it on the regular, they’ll offer a $20 credit toward the $85 membership. (That’s something D.C. doesn’t offer.) Basically, it just got even easier for the tepid among us to dip our toes into the world of bikesharing. But then, we suspect Hubway knew that when they made this offering.