A sad day for bikeshare.
David Gutman reports that Seattle's Pronto! system will share its last bike today. " After a weekend in purgatory, work crews will begin taking down and packing up the program’s 54 stations and 500 bikes on Monday." The uninstall process is expected to take two weeks.
"The equipment will be put into storage as SDOT looks for other cities that may want to buy it," reports Gutman. "Pronto stations that were on the street (as opposed to a sidewalk) will be replaced by whatever parking type is on the rest of the block while SDOT considers future uses."
The demise of Pronto! was first reported in January, after months of struggles for the beleaguered bikeshare system. A February article by Andrew Small performed an autopsy.
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