Tag: pbsc
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Puget Sound Bike Share aiming for summer launch despite supplier bankruptcy
News broke Monday that the Canadian public bike maker PBSC (AKA Bixi) has declared bankruptcy. The company supplies the equipment and bikes used in most of the biggest US and Canadian bike share systems, including systems in New York City, Chicago and Washington DC. They are also the supplier Puget Sound Bike Share was planning…
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Puget Sound Bike Share ‘optimistic’ about sponsorships, supplier troubles
Bike share boosters across the nation are biting their nails this week as Nice Ride, the Minneapolis public bikes organization, is pursuing legal action against Montreal-based PBSC. The problem is complicated, but the short version is that PBSC supplies the hardware and (in some places) software used by most major public bike systems in the…
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