Bikes locked at a Nice Ride Minnesota station. Courtesy of Nice Ride Minnesota

Is bike share in Pittsburgh’s Future?

The Pittsburgh City Paper’s cover story looks at “a half dozen inventions that could change Pittsburgh as we know it.”

Top of the list?

Start a Pittsburgh Bike Share

We couldn’t agree more.  As the article states, “Bike Pittsburgh executive director Scott Bricker calls bike-shares ‘absolutely the coolest thing ever.’ In fact, in April, Bricker is bringing Wisconsin-based bike-share system-designer B-Cycle to Pittsburgh, to try selling local officials on the concept.”

By Bill O’Driscoll

If sharing works for cars, why not bikes? Pittsburgh got membership-based car-sharing in 2007. Now Zipcar Pittsburgh has about 40 locations around town, helping people travel more efficiently. Doing the same with bicycles — putting them where people can rent them readily and affordably — would go even further toward saving money, saving time and reducing pollution. Here’s how it works. Somebody buys a bunch of bikes and electronically locking stations — dozens or more stations around town — to store them.

Read the rest of this story in the Pittsburgh City Paper

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