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From our Bike Events Calendar
Jun23Wed6:00 pm Ballard-Fremont Greenways MeetingBallard-Fremont Greenways MeetingJun 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pmBallard-Fremont Greenways meets monthly on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Check Facebook for monthly meeting information: https://www.facebook.com/BFGreenways/FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailJun24Thu6:00 pm Beacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryBeacon Hill Safe Streets Monthly... @ Beacon Hill LibraryJun 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:45 pmformerly Beacon B.I.K.E.S. FacebookTwitterRedditPocketEmailJun27Sunall-day Lake Union History Ride Redux @ Gas Works ParkLake Union History Ride Redux @ Gas Works ParkJun 27 all-day
This is a history ride from Gas Works Park clockwise around Lake Union with 12 stops. Ride is free, no-drop, 12.4 miles long, leisurely pace, and has a restroom/snack break around the halfway point. Ride is limited to 15 people, … Continue readingall-day Ride for Major Taylor @ White Center Bicycle PlaygroundRide for Major Taylor @ White Center Bicycle PlaygroundJun 27 all-day
With 63-mile and 26-mile options, the Ride for Major Taylor Project is a fundraiser: 80% of your registration fee goes directly to the Major Taylor Project, a year-round, youth leadership cycling program focused on introducing young adults from underserved communities … Continue readingJul3Sat9:00 am First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...First Saturday Neighborhood Clea...Jul 3 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pmEvery month volunteers gather to collect garbage and help beautify our neighborhood. On average, we collect about 15 bags of garbage per clean up, which means 1,000’s of small pieces of plastic that do not find their way into Puget … Continue reading
Tag Archives: bike share
Geekwire: Lime is adding another 1,500 JUMP bikes in Seattle, bikes now available in Lime app
If you have been having trouble finding a bright red shared JUMP bike around town, relief may be on the way. Lime is planning to quadruple the number of shared e-bikes on Seattle streets from 500 to 2,000 by the … Continue reading
Bike share is back. Lime relaunches 500 JUMP bikes
Lime has relaunched e-assist bike share in Seattle, about six weeks after pulling their newly-acquired red JUMP bikes from the streets following a major investment deal with Uber. There are far fewer bikes hitting the streets than were available before. … Continue reading
Seattle has no bike share now, Lime says it will relaunch bikes at some point
For the first time since July 2017, no bike share bikes are available in Seattle. As a consequence of the major investment deal yesterday between Uber and Lime, JUMP and its red bikes now belong to Lime. Though users could … Continue reading
Lime takes over JUMP as part of big Uber investment deal
Seattle’s final operational bike share service just changed hands in yet another major shakeup in the private bike share saga. Uber led a $170 million investment in a majorly devalued Lime, and Lime will take on Uber’s JUMP bike and … Continue reading
You can now report bike share parking issues with the city’s Find It Fix It app
Bike share parking complaints can now be routed through the city’s Find It Fix It app and website as well as by calling 684-ROAD, SDOT’s work order hotline. Basically, reporting a bike share parking issue now goes through the same … Continue reading
JUMP is offering free rides to essential workers + City is adding bike parking where needed to ease crunch
To help people get around during the COVID-19 outbreak, Seattle’s only bike share company JUMP is offering free 30-minute rides to essential workers during the stay-at-home order (“at least”). Workplaces just need to email [email protected] to get ride codes they … Continue reading
Lime will shut down Seattle bike service at the end of 2019
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
As city adds lots of bike parking, audit finds fewer poorly-parked bike share bikes + More bike share updates
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
What should Seattle’s scooter rollout look like? + Public forum Wednesday
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
Bike share use steady with fewer bikes and higher prices, but bike parking remains a problem
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
As shared bikes and cars get more exclusive, it’s time to start thinking about what happens next
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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Tagged bike share, car share, car2go, jump, limebike, lyft, pronto emerald city cycle share, reachnow, uber, zipcar
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Lime and JUMP raise prices, city revokes 2,000 bike permits
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
Watch: Rooted In Rights why proper bike share parking is so important
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
SDOT partners with Outdoors For All to offer free adaptive bike rentals all summer
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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Tagged adaptive bike share, adaptive cycling, bike share, outdoors for all, sdot
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Bike share parking still an accessibility issue, but it’s getting better
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
Seattle’s bike share stands out as companies shift to scooters elsewhere
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
JUMP now reaches city limits, undercuts Lime by $1
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
JUMP expands service to SE and West Seattle following criticism, announces 2K new bikes
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
People in Seattle have taken more than 2M Lime trips + ofo appears to be imploding
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
2018’s one millionth Fremont Bridge bike trip is about to cross, smashing the record
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
