Tag: bike share

August 20, 2014

Pronto memberships go on sale noon Monday, first 600 get special blue keys

Tune your web browser to prontocycleshare.com and ready your refresh button because memberships for Seattle’s bike share system go on sale at noon Monday. The system is scheduled to launch next month, and they are counting on a lot of people to buy their $85 annual memberships before the 500 public bikes hit the streets.…
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tagged: bike share, pronto emerald city cycle share
August 5, 2014

Pronto is hiring for all sorts of bike share jobs

Pronto Cycle Share is hiring for various positions needed to launch and operate Seattle’s planned bike share system. Whether you have office skills, bike fixin’ skills or people skills, they could need you. Below are the openings at the moment, posted to their job listings web page. But they will likely be adding more as…
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tagged: bike share, jobs, pronto emerald city cycle share
July 29, 2014

How Pronto plans to make bike share work even with Seattle’s helmet law

King County has a very rare all-ages helmet law, which will certainly complicate the launch and daily operations of Pronto Cycle Share in September. But fueled by a grant from Seattle Children’s, they are forging ahead with an ambitious and novel plan to make it work using a streamlined and simple helmet checkout and return…
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tagged: bike share, helmet laws, helmets, king county board of health, pronto emerald city cycle share, seattle children’s
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
July 22, 2014

Pronto submits permits for bike share stations, is on schedule for September launch

Pronto Cycle Share is moving forward on schedule, and outreach has begun to finalize station locations. The bike share organization has applied for permits for what will be 50 stations, all operational by the end of September. The Alaska Airlines-sponsored system will launch with 500 bikes in the center city neighborhoods and the University District.…
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tagged: bike share, ed murray, pronto emerald city cycle share
November 12, 2013

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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tagged: bike share, citibike, downtown, puget sound bike share