Tag: holly houser

February 4, 2016

Pronto needs city buyout before end of March, how did we get here?

The hard deadline to save Pronto is March 30. With more than 30,000 people taking 144,000 trips in the first year of operations, supporters and City Councilmembers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how Pronto got into such a dire situation with hardly any warning to the public. Ridership in the first year…
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tagged: city council, holly houser, mike o’brien, nicole freedman, paulo nunes-ueno, pronto emerald city cycle share, puget sound bike share, transportation committee
October 13, 2015

Happy first birthday, Pronto! A look at use and how the bike share system can grow

Pronto Cycle Share launched one year ago today. Since then, people have used the bikes to complete 144,000 trips, traveling 335,694 miles. That’s the equivalent of biking around the equator 13.5 times or biking to the moon and making it half way back. That’s a whole lot of bike sharing, and puts the Seattle system…
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tagged: holly houser, pronto emerald city cycle share, stephen fesler, the urbanist
August 27, 2015

Houser stepping down as bike share Director

As Pronto Cycle Share nears its first birthday, the Holly Houser is handing over the helm. Houser has been Executive Director of Puget Sound Bike Share, the non-profit behind Pronto, since late 2012. From selecting an operating company (Alta Bicycle Share, which was bought by Motivate) to finding major sponsors to uniting the city government…
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tagged: holly houser, pronto emerald city cycle share, puget sound bike share
February 24, 2015

Pronto’s helmet solution just might work, but can it keep up with growth?

We’ve discussed the challenges of launching a bike share system in a city with a rare all-ages helmet law previously. In fact, we’ve done so at length several times. But while some other municipalities with helmet laws balk — Vancouver’s planned system has been delayed yet again, and B.C.’s helmet law was cited as a…
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tagged: capitol hill seattle, helmet laws, holly houser, pronto emerald city cycle share
November 14, 2014

In 1 month Pronto users biked distance from Seattle to NY 8 times + Helmet theft rate down

Pronto Cycle Share is a month old, and I already can’t imagine Seattle without it. In just the first month, 1,760 annual members, 1,856 24-hour pass holders and 156 three-day pass holders used the system to make 10,747 trips and travel 22,663 miles on the bike share system. And as Pronto noted in a blog post,…
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tagged: holly houser, pronto emerald city cycle share
November 4, 2014

UW accepts bike-friendly campus award, leaders talk about how to expand biking even further

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is by Jack Truitt, a UW News Lab student. It is published here as part of a partnership between Seattle Bike Blog and News Lab. Biking needs to become an issue of climate change and personal health in order to escape the category of fitness hobby, according to the president of…
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tagged: andy clarke, bicycle friendly university, Charles Kennedy, elizabeth kiker, holly houser, jack truitt, league of american bicyclists, Nancy Rottle, news lab, scott kubly, uw