Tag: bluegogo

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
May 3, 2017

Test riding a Bluegogo stationless bike share bike in downtown Seattle

I took a ride on what could be one of Seattle’s next bike share bikes and made it up one of downtown’s steepest hills. It was a Bluegogo bike, one of at least two companies actively pursuing Seattle as one of the first major U.S. markets to launch a low-cost, app-connected, stationless bike share service.…
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tagged: anthony desnick, bike share, bluegogo, downtown, stationless bike share
April 28, 2017

By killing Pronto, Seattle could become the center of private bike share innovation

The Pronto docks have been scrubbed from city streets. As much as I am sad to see it go and feel the system never got a fair shot at success, it’s done. Time to move on and look to the future of bike share in Seattle. And we may not need to wait long. “We’re…
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tagged: bike share, bluegogo, derrick ko, ilya movshovich, Lisa herbold, spin, tim burgess