Tag: bike share

August 9, 2024

I rode Lime’s new sit-down scooter

I took the new Lime Glider sit-down scooter for a test ride a few days before the company rolls 280 of them out in the U District starting for a trial. People can ride them anywhere they want within the Lime service area for the same price as their bikes and scooters, but Lime staff…
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tagged: bike share, lime glider, limebike, scooter share, sit-down scooters
August 2, 2024

In July, Lime bikes and scooters carried half as many trips as the $2B SR-99 tunnel

People in Seattle took 24,118 trips on Lime bikes and scooters every day on average during the month of July. That is nearly five times the average weekday ridership for both Seattle Streetcar lines combined, and it’s about half the average number of vehicles using the $2 billion SR-99 tunnel under downtown (47,291 average vehicles…
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tagged: bike share, deep bore tunnel, limebike, scooter share, sr 99
July 9, 2024

I had a Seattle traffic safety epiphany while riding Long Beach’s wonderful, legacy bike share system

During the long train ride from Los Angeles to Long Beach, I tried to figure out whether it would be better to wait for a bus to my friend’s apartment or just walk it instead. But as I stepped off the A Line, the obvious answer was staring right at me: Long Beach Bike Share.…
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tagged: bike share, daylighting intersections, hoboken, sdot
June 6, 2024

Lime’s new throttle/pedal assist hybrid e-bike makes the best dockless bike even better

I was worried when I first read Lime’s announcement that they were launching a new throttle-controlled e-bike in Seattle because their existing Gen3 pedal-assist e-bikes were by far the best bike share bikes I’ve ever ridden. Would the new Gen4 bikes be more like sit-down scooters than bikes (like the Veo Cosmo “bikes”)? Well, I…
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tagged: bike share, bird, limebike, ORCA Lift, veo
March 25, 2024

UW student’s survey seeks feedback on ‘rentable grocery bike’ concept

Cargo bikes and heavy-duty bike trailers are bulky and pricey, but so useful. While some people, like yours truly, are going to invest in cargo-hauling bike solutions, most people may not find themselves in situations where they need to haul stuff around by bike often enough to justify the cost and space required. And depending…
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tagged: bike share, cargo bikes, cargoroo, muhammad hasan
March 7, 2024

Veo ‘temporarily pauses’ Seattle service, pledges to relaunch with refreshed e-bikes

Veo paused Seattle service as of March 1, but the company says they will return in “several weeks” with refreshed e-bikes and revamped operations. With the demise of SuperPedestrian and their LINK scooter service as well as the ongoing bankruptcy of Bird, Lime has been eagerly gobbling up market share in Seattle. Veo, meanwhile, is…
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tagged: bike share, limebike, scooter share, veo