Tag: kyle rowe
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How a 20-something SDOT staffer took on a dying program & changed the bike share world
Kyle Rowe was still an undergrad at UW when he started working for SDOT. In a few short years, he would make himself indispensable to the department, take a career risk on a doomed bike share program and somehow turn it into a success that caught the world’s attention. Rowe is the SDOT staffer most…
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Bike share ridership is booming + Spin launches better bike, Forbes says LimeBike valued at $200M
Free-floating bike share is working in Seattle. Or at least it sure appears that way according to the city’s first analysis of anonymized private bike share data. In just two months, people have already taken 120,000 trips on the bikes. And because companies are steadily increasing the number of bikes on the streets, the number…
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Seattle’s new bike map much more legible, still needs to ditch the sharrows
The 2016 bike map is now out (a little late, yes), and it represents some quality steps towards a more usable routing tool. You can download the PDF or even order a free physical copy via the SDOT bike map webpage. We were pretty critical of the 2015 map because it overstated the completeness and…
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