Post by Logan on Jan 16, 2017 6:04:00 GMT -6
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: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/mayor-ed-murray-kills-seattles-bike-share-program-pronto/
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: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/mayor-ed-murray-kills-seattles-bike-share-program-pronto/