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The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is providing guidance for cities struggling to reckon with the sudden evolution of transportation modes in urban areas.
Smart Cities Dive
A new report by INRIX Research ranks cities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany for the potential of micrombility devices to reduce automobile trips.
The Oregonian
Companies are looking to generate profits, but customers have come to expect low-cost, subsidized travel and raising prices will prove challenging.
Time
The state needs to pass legislation to legalize electric bikes and scooters to give residents more mobility options and discourage driving.
Crain's New York Business
Local governments struggling to keep up with the fast-paced innovations of the micromobility industry can make use of a new report from the National league of Cities.
Smart Cities Dive
Transit ridership is dropping, but a closer look at causes points to the role bike share could play in making transit a better option.
Curbed
Some good news, and some bad, on the effect of bike-share programs on transit ridership.
Smart Cities Dive
A new study confirms that dockless bike share has proven more successful in reaching a more diverse population in D.C. than the more traditional bike share system, Capital Bikshare.
Streetsblog USA
Bike share riders in Philadelphia will have the option of trying something a little zippier.
PlanPhilly
The city recently received a grant that will help it grow its bike-share network, particularly into areas that have been underserved.
WTTW
Lime Bikes and two other bike share operators applied for expansions in the city, but all were rebuffed.
Seattle Magazine
Uber plans to support sustainable mobility by funding advocacy efforts, sharing data, and offering bike-share service.
Curbed
Mayor John Tory announced a 2018 expansion of bike share that will include 3,750 new bikes and 360 new stations.
Daily Hive
Instead of expanding the traditional docked bike share stations, Citi Bike will launch new dockless bikes in the Bronx.
StreetsBlog NYC
Politicians and residents are uniting to delay Ford GoBike's expansion around San Francisco.
San Francisco Examiner
Lime and Jump were allowed to bring 300 bikes to the borough, where bike share became available in late July.
Curbed NY
Bike share company ofo's U.S. presence shrinks to a fraction of its former self, slashing its headcount and ending service in all but three U.S. cities.
Quartz
In New York, SNAP recipients to get access to Citi Bikes at discount like DIVY riders already do in Chicago.
Fast Company
In smaller towns in the greater Boston area, communities are offering bike share that crosses town borders.
The Boston Globe
