Post by Logan on Dec 26, 2016 23:14:41 GMT -6
There’s the rain. There are the hills. There’s the fact that the last, smaller system failed and the new contractor has never done a project anywhere near this size.
As the Seattle City Council ponders whether to spend $5 million upgrading the city’s foundering bike-share program, there are a lot of challenges to overcome. But bike shares have been hugely successful in cities both much larger and much smaller than Seattle. Why can’t it work here, in a city with a famously active and outdoorsy culture?
There is one challenge facing Seattle’s bike share that no other city in the world has so far overcome: a mandatory helmet law.
Somewhere around 1,000 cities worldwide have bike-share programs. Fewer than five of those cities also have a law requiring adults to wear a helmet when riding a bike. No American city with a bike-share program, save Seattle, has a helmet law for adults.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/will-helmet-law-kill-seattles-new-bike-share-program/
As the Seattle City Council ponders whether to spend $5 million upgrading the city’s foundering bike-share program, there are a lot of challenges to overcome. But bike shares have been hugely successful in cities both much larger and much smaller than Seattle. Why can’t it work here, in a city with a famously active and outdoorsy culture?
There is one challenge facing Seattle’s bike share that no other city in the world has so far overcome: a mandatory helmet law.
Somewhere around 1,000 cities worldwide have bike-share programs. Fewer than five of those cities also have a law requiring adults to wear a helmet when riding a bike. No American city with a bike-share program, save Seattle, has a helmet law for adults.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/will-helmet-law-kill-seattles-new-bike-share-program/