Montreal exports it’s bike sharing program.
Bike sharing programs are the signs of a city with an intelligent plan and open to bicycles. It adds to the resume of the city and attracts businesses and people.
Paris has it. Washington DC has it. Now Boston an London are queing up. They all charge for it. Would a free bike sharing program work?
Montreal Exports its Bike-Sharing Program
By IAN AUSTENIan Austen/The New York Times The bike-sharing system pioneered in Montreal will soon be used in Boston and London.
From the beginning, Montreal officials had ambitions for the new Bixi bicycle-sharing system that went beyond the borders of that Canadian city. On Wednesday, Gérald Tremblay, the Montreal’s mayor, announced that the Bixi system will be implemented in Boston and London.
It is not clear at this point if the roll-out in Boston — where local officials are mounting a push for more bike lanes as well — will be on the same scale as Montreal’s system, with hundreds of parking stations and thousands of bicycles. (An alternative model would be SmarkBike D.C. in Washington, which uses a different docking technology and has only has 10 stations.)
Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council confirmed that it has selected Bixi to put in place a bike-sharing program. But Amanda Linehan, a spokeswoman for the council, said that Boston and other municipalities must now negotiate contracts for the service.
Read full article here: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/montreal-exports-its-bike-sharing-program/?pagemode=print
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