Tag Archives: bike share

Lime will shut down Seattle bike service at the end of 2019

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Lime announced today that they will be pulling their e-bikes from Seattle streets December 31. This follows a week and a half of rumors that the company was shutting down, rumors the company denied to both Seattle Bike Blog and … Continue reading →

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As city adds lots of bike parking, audit finds fewer poorly-parked bike share bikes + More bike share updates

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The city’s quarterly audit of bike share parking (PDF) found a massive 57% drop in the percentage of Jump and Lime bikes parked incorrectly. Of 756 bikes audited (approximately half Lime and half Jump), staff found only one (0.1%) that … Continue reading →

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What should Seattle’s scooter rollout look like? + Public forum Wednesday

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle got out in front of most other U.S. cities when it encouraged private bike share companies to launch their services in summer 2017. The city’s experiment in dockless bike share has been wildly influential on how other cities have … Continue reading →

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Bike share use steady with fewer bikes and higher prices, but bike parking remains a problem

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The meteoric rise of bike share in Seattle in recent years has plateaued as the number of bikes in operation shrink and prices rise. However, despite these changes, people in Seattle took about as many bike share rides in the … Continue reading →

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As shared bikes and cars get more exclusive, it’s time to start thinking about what happens next

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Lime bikes are blowing up. Literally. Exploding Lime Bike battery on UW campus … yikes! from r/Seattle This post is not about the couple of battery explosions reported in Seattle recently, but it’s hard to ignore that very visible (and … Continue reading →

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Lime and JUMP raise prices, city revokes 2,000 bike permits

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle’s ongoing experiment with private, free-floating bike share has changed the landscape for biking in the city, helping to raise city bike counts to record heights. Bike share in Seattle has been unprecedentedly successful at increasing the raw number of … Continue reading →

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Watch: Rooted In Rights why proper bike share parking is so important

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

It should be common sense, but don’t block walkways when you park a bike share bike. But you should also go a step further and think, would this bike impede someone with a vision impairment? Is it too close to … Continue reading →

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SDOT partners with Outdoors For All to offer free adaptive bike rentals all summer

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Bike share is amazing. Just beep a bike with your phone, and you’re riding wherever you want to go for a few nickels per minute. That is, of course, if you are physically able to operate the app and ride … Continue reading →

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Bike share parking still an accessibility issue, but it’s getting better

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

In June 2018, 4% of bike share bikes were parked in a way that impeded a walkway or curb ramp. Today, that figure is fewer than 2%, according to the latest SDOT bike share audit, the Seattle Times reports. Bikes … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s bike share stands out as companies shift to scooters elsewhere

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Just 21 months ago, Seattle turned American bike share on its head by permitting companies to launch free-floating bikes all over town, an effort that dramatically increased the number of bike trips all over town, turned heads in city halls … Continue reading →

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JUMP now reaches city limits, undercuts Lime by $1

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

After adding more bikes and changing its fare structure this week, JUMP’s red bikes now reach all of Seattle and cost $1 less to ride than Lime’s green and yellow bikes. JUMP initially launched Seattle service in November with a limited … Continue reading →

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JUMP expands service to SE and West Seattle following criticism, announces 2K new bikes

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

Following a Seattle Times story critical of the company’s limited service area, JUMP has expanded to include all of Southeast and West Seattle. Though the Times story headline says that JUMP has been charging people $25 for parking outside the … Continue reading →

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People in Seattle have taken more than 2M Lime trips + ofo appears to be imploding

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

People in Seattle have taken more than 2,050,000 trips on Lime bikes since the company launched in summer 2017, according their annual report. That’s a pace of about 1.5 million trips per year for just one of the companies serving … Continue reading →

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2018’s one millionth Fremont Bridge bike trip is about to cross, smashing the record

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Whoever bikes across the Fremont Bridge as number 1,582 today will tip the 2018 bike counter into seven digits, clobbering all previous records by a wide margin. Bike trips across the iconic bridge, which forms a pinch point for many … Continue reading →

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Uber’s JUMP launches their lock-to, slightly cheaper e-bikes in central Seattle

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

After months of delays getting the new bike share permit in place and through environmental review, Uber’s JUMP launched in Seattle this morning. They join Lime, which has had a temporary monopoly on bike share in town since early summer … Continue reading →

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More than 3,000 Lime users contact city asking for scooter share

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Lime launched a digital campaign Wednesday to encourage its users to contact Seattle city leaders and ask them to allow scooter share. In just one day, the company says more than 3,000 people have done so. Before ofo and Spin … Continue reading →

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KOMO: Sabotaged bike share brakes may have caused teen to crash

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

An 18-year-old who was hospitalized this week after a crash near the University Bridge may be the first victim of a bike share vandal who cut the brake lines on his Lime e-bike. The teen is in stable condition, reports … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s next bike share battle could be between Lime, Uber and Lyft + Let’s start a scooter pilot

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Though it’s been scaling back its efforts for a while now, Spin has officially announced an end to its bike share service in Seattle. Citing an increase in fees and the decision not to include scooters in the city’s updated … Continue reading →

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Police release video of person snipping bike share brake cables

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

Seattle Police have released a surveillance video of a person in Sodo seen snipping bike share brake cables on more than one occasion, and they’re asking for the public’s help identifying the suspect. For months, brake cables on bike share … Continue reading →

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Lime’s expanded discount program lets people pay in cash, unlock 5¢ bikes with a text

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

A nickel. In 2018, there is essentially nothing that costs a nickel. But that’s all it costs for qualifying low-income users to unlock a Lime pedal bike under the company’s newly-expanded Lime Access program ($5 for 100 rides). And qualifying … Continue reading →

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