Bikeshare has been a breeze, for the most part, in Washington, D.C. But the District Department of Transportation is making room for innovation anyways.
"A new program using dock-free technology could help expand the reach of bikeshares to these underserved areas [in Washington, D.C.," reports Martin Di Caro.
"As part of a pilot program, which will start Sept. 20 and run through April 2018, several companies will test dock-free bikeshare technology in the District," adds Di Caro. "At least two companies will deploy 200 bikes each across D.C.’s neighborhoods: Spin, which launched in Seattle, and Mobike, which began in Shanghai in 2016."
D.C.'s decision to experiment with bikeshare comes despite the fact that Capital Bikeshare s one of the most successful bikeshare programs in the country.
The article includes a lot more detail about how dockless bikeshare works, how much dockless bikeshare costs, and how dockless bikesahre is expected to fill the remaining gaps in the Capital Bikeshare system.
Read the full story: Dockless Bikeshares Offer New Way To Get Around D.C. On Two Wheels
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