Seattle's Mayor Murray kills city-run bike-share program

[TexasTowelie]

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.

Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/mayor-ed-murray-kills-seattles-bike-share-program-pronto/

[MrScorpio]

1. Seattle, from what I know of it, is a pretty hilly town

Is this new move good or bad?

[TexasTowelie]

2. I think that the mayor and others think that any program would be best served

as a private sector business.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Speaking as an avid cyclist

I wouldn't ride one of those clunkers they were providing

[Renew Deal]

3. NY's bike share is going strong

http://gothamist.com/2016/12/29/citi_bike_sets_new_ridership_record.php