Tag: alta bicycle share

October 28, 2014

Pronto operator Alta Bicycle Share bought by New York company

Rumors have been swirling around for months now, but Alta Bicycle Share officially announced Tuesday that they have been bought by a New York-based investment group. Alta Bicycle Share operates many of the biggest bike share systems in the US including Pronto Cycle Share. The purchase comes amid challenges expanding and improving successful systems in…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, alta planning + design, bikeshare holdings llc, citibike, pronto emerald city cycle share
July 28, 2014

I test ride a Pronto bike (and yes, it can climb hills)

Pronto Cycle Share has a couple prototypes of the 500 public bikes they will put into service around the city center and the U District in September, and I had the chance recently to test one out. The bike is the product of a new supply chain for Alta Bicycle Share, who used to get…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, arcade, bike share, holly houser, pronto emerald city cycle share, streetcars
April 3, 2014

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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tagged: alta bicycle share, holly houser, puget sound bike share
November 1, 2013

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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tagged: alta bicycle share, holly houser, pbsc, puget sound bike share
August 30, 2013

OMG! Somebody pedaled a Capital Bikeshare all the way to Seattle?!?! (not really)

I received so many messages yesterday from people who saw this Washington DC Capital Bikeshare bike locked up in Seattle. It even led to a completely baffled post on DCist. Did someone really ride a bike share bike 3,000 miles to Seattle? Just imagine the overage charges they’ve racked up! Unfortunately, no, this bike was…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, bay area bike share, capital bikeshare, puget sound bike share, san fransisco
April 23, 2013

Alta selected to build and operate Seattle bike share system

Portland-based Alta Bicycle Share will build and operate Puget Sound Bike Share‘s planned system, the organization announced Tuesday. Alta has also recently won contracts in Portland, Vancouver BC and San Francisco, and the company last week launched what will be its biggest bike share system: Citibike in New York City. They are also behind the…
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tagged: alta bicycle share, puget sound bike share