Tag: bike share

February 27, 2018

UW master’s student is surveying bike share users

Did you use Pronto? Have you used the new bike share bikes? If you answered yes to either of these questions, University of Washington master’s student Luke Peters would like to hear from you. Peters recently launched a survey in an attempt to better understand the lessons from the failure of Pronto Cycle Share and…
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tagged: bike share, luke peters, uw sustainable transportation lab
February 12, 2018

Howell: Going Steady with Lime-E

After a month of anticipation, LimeBike released 300 e-bikes into its fleet of 4,000 bikeshare bike in Seattle this past weekend, with plans to release another 200 by this Wednesday. Eventually, “Lime-Es” will comprise forty percent of LimeBike’s fleet. Here’s the thing — I had never ridden an e-bike in my life. And while I…
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tagged: bike share, electric assist, lime-e, limebike
January 9, 2018

LimeBike and Spin announce e-assist bikes, an innovation that could change bike share all over again

Yesterday, both Spin and LimeBike announced electric-assist bicycles, an innovation that — if successful — could change the bike share industry all over again. LimeBike will likely be the first to launch e-bikes in Seattle, saying in a press release that the bikes will be available “starting in January 2018.” The company is currently planning…
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tagged: bike share, electric assist, limebike, spin
January 8, 2018

ofo kicks off 2018 with free rides, big plans and an allegation of poor working conditions

2017 was a wild year of expansion and change for the global bike share industry, and 2018 is already shaping up to continue the trend of innovation and competition within the industry. And Seattle is positioned to remain at the forefront among U.S. cities as city staff work on a permanent permit and regulation scheme…
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tagged: bike share, millionair club charity, nikolai mell, ofo, taylor bennett
December 15, 2017

Bike share pilot’s daily ridership blows past Pronto’s lifetime totals, rivals both streetcars combined

As bike share companies added more bikes to Seattle streets during late summer and early autumn, the number of trips accelerated, too. Combined, Spin, ofo and LimeBike are carrying nearly as many daily riders as both the First Hill Streetcar and the South Lake Union Streetcar combined. For the first two months, the brand new…
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tagged: bike share, pronto emerald city cycle share, streetcars
November 20, 2017

China’s Bluegogo, which once had bike share plans in Seattle, implodes dramatically

In what is so far the biggest and most dramatic implosion yet in the new global free-floating bike share boom, China-based Bluegogo has reportedly gone bankrupt with big bills, staff salaries and user deposits still outstanding. Bluegogo was one of the first companies to try to operate in Seattle. They even got as far as…
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tagged: bike share, bluegogo