Tag: puget sound bike share
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Buses get cut, but bike share is on track: System sponsor list keeps growing
If you’re as bummed as I am about the likely rejection of Prop 1 to save Metro funding, put down that morning beer. There is some good transportation news today. Puget Sound Bike Share announced today that the list of sponsors continues to grow and now includes an impressive list of companies and organizations in…
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Where should the first bike share stations go?
As we reported last week, Puget Sound Bike Share is on track for a late summer launch utilizing a new partnership between Alta Bicycle Share, 8D Technologies and a “well-known global manufacturer” of bike share bikes. The initial launch will include 500 bikes and 50 stations in the University District, Eastlake, South Lake Union, the…
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Seattle-based system will pioneer new bike share partnership + Hiring manager
It’s almost official, bike share is coming to Seattle. Puget Sound Bike Share announced Thursday that they have entered into a deal that would utilize a redesigned partnership between Alta Bicycle Share and 8D Technologies to launch a Seattle-based system in 2014. After the not-entirely-surprising bankruptcy of former Alta supplier PBSC (AKA Bixi) earlier this…
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Murray announces 2014 bike share launch, aims to reduce drive-alone commute rate to 25%
Mayor Ed Murray gave his first State of the City speech Tuesday in the City Council chambers, and he used the spotlight to announce progress on launching a public bike share system and cutting the current drive-alone commute rate in half. “Seattle is one of only five cities where less than half of commuters are…
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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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After more than 5 million CitiBike trips, remarkably few injuries and zero deaths
A common fear I hear when people talk about the launch of Puget Sound Bike Share next year is that the system will be dangerous without safer bike infrastructure downtown. Even with the city working to build more than two miles of protected bike lanes downtown by the end of 2015, the lanes won’t be…
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