Tag: andrew glass hastings

September 20, 2017

Bike share ridership is booming + Spin launches better bike, Forbes says LimeBike valued at $200M

Free-floating bike share is working in Seattle. Or at least it sure appears that way according to the city’s first analysis of anonymized private bike share data. In just two months, people have already taken 120,000 trips on the bikes. And because companies are steadily increasing the number of bikes on the streets, the number…
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tagged: andrew glass hastings, kyle rowe, limebike, ofo, sdot, spin
October 20, 2016

Council faces a choice: Kill Pronto now or make lemonade out of the existing stations?

Pronto Cycle Share turned two years old last week, but there hasn’t been a whole lot of celebration. At this point, the system has spent more time operating in a state of uncertainty and controversy than it has operating normally. And that uncertainty has had a huge impact on membership and ridership. After all, few…
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tagged: 2017 budget, andrew glass hastings, bruce harrell, Lisa herbold, mike o’brien, pronto emerald city cycle share, sally bagshaw, tim burgess
October 10, 2016

Motivate is out. City picks young Quebec company for new e-assist bike share system

Though it’s not final, Seattle has indicated that it intends to select a young Quebec-based company to launch an all-new electric-assist bike share system. That means both Motivate, the current Pronto Cycle Share operator, and the existing Pronto equipment are out if the deal goes through. The city is now negotiating directly with Quebec-based Bewegen…
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tagged: andrew glass hastings, bewegen, motivate, pronto emerald city cycle share, sdot