Woohoo! The Capital BikeShare program is launching this fall! As I've discussed in this blog before, city bike share programs are the coolest for quick destination rides getting about the neighborhood. Just like Paris Velib! While SmartBike, run by marketing firm Clear Channel, made DC hip just for trying, the 150 bikes in 15 stations were just plain measly. And SmarkBike, whose program will end with the new one's launch, doesn't even compare to the 1000 bikes at 100 stations throughout DC of the new program. Now we're we're talking Paris cool*. And London cool, too! Barclay's Cycle Hire program launches there on July 30.
*Actually I read in one commentary on the program that to be comparable to Velib in density of bikeshares per capita, DC would need about 5400 bikes. I also read in sleuthing this that another 1000 bikes for program expansion are planned in a matching grant proposal. Exciting!
We have city car share programs in Bremen. Bike sharing is a cool idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading. Bike sharing programs are increasingly popular in cities - Barcelona, London, Montreal, Paris - I'm sure Bremen will be any day...!
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