Philadelphia City Council Investigates Creation of Bike Sharing.
Philadelphia City Council in its first 2008 Session passes Resolution to hold hearing to investigate the creation of a Public Use Bicycle Program. Read the rest of this entry »
City Council decides to investigate creation of Philly BikeShare
February 6, 2008
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The Philly BikeShare initiative launches
January 30, 2008I wrote the text of “Philly Eco-City” in July of 2007, that is before the election of Mayor Michael Nutter.
Last week I discovered that on Thursday January 17th a bunch of people from the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia launched an initiative to create Philly BikeShare or rather “Bike Share Philadelphia” as they call it. The launch event took place at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences on a cold winter night. The event attracted about 400 people with, among others, Michael Nutter, the new Philadelphia Mayor, and a state representative in attendance.
I am very happy that other people had the same idea and are working on making it happen.
Launching a bike sharing program in a large US city is a major endeavor. Read the rest of this entry »
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