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Seattle's Mayor Murray kills city-run bike-share program
Seattle Times:Seattle’s city-run bike-share program is dead.
Officials had planned to roll out a new system with electric bikes to replace Pronto, the city’s troubled bike-share system.
But Mayor Ed Murray on Friday said millions of dollars allocated for the new system will be spent instead on bike- and pedestrian-safety projects. And the city no longer will pursue an agreement with Quebec-based Bewegen to put electric bikes on Seattle’s streets, said Benton Strong, a Murray spokesman.
Pronto is scheduled to shut down at the end of March, so the announcement means the city will soon have no public system at all.
Officials had planned to roll out a new system with electric bikes to replace Pronto, the city’s troubled bike-share system.
But Mayor Ed Murray on Friday said millions of dollars allocated for the new system will be spent instead on bike- and pedestrian-safety projects. And the city no longer will pursue an agreement with Quebec-based Bewegen to put electric bikes on Seattle’s streets, said Benton Strong, a Murray spokesman.
Pronto is scheduled to shut down at the end of March, so the announcement means the city will soon have no public system at all.
I think the fundamental problem was that residents who biked had bikes of their own, and tourists weren't going to navigate the steep hills.
