Portland’s Biketown bike share system launched in 2016, but we’d been talking about it and planning for it long before that. Learn all about it in our archives below.
These are dark times for the old Biketown bikes. Once celebrated, they’ve been relegated to a cold corner of a city-owned storage area. While the new electric-assist bikes gather attention and adoring fans, the 1,000 or so old bikes just gather dust. While they weren’t integrated into the new system, the old bikes have lots … Read more
“This service outage is a good opportunity for leadership at Lyft to better articulate how their bike share systems plan to operate in emergency situations,”— Tarani Duncan, bike share industry veteran
Portland’s much-ballyhooed all-electric fleet of new bike share bikes will launch on Wednesday. The Portland Bureau of Transportation just made the official announcement and will host a press conference tomorrow in east Portland. As we reported back in July this expansion comes with a host of changes — most notably a widely expanded service area, … Read more
Today’s questions comes from reader Chris C. Chris was surprised when a TriMet operator told him he couldn’t put his Biketown bike on the bus rack. Here’s his question: “I learned from first-hand experience today that a TriMet bus will not allow a Biketown rental bike to be transported, because it is a Biketown bike. … Read more
Sources say the Portland Bureau of Transportation has ended bike share contract negotiations with Lyft and is now jumping on board with Uber. PBOT sought bidders for a major bike share system expansion last fall and opted to stay with Lyft, the company that owns Biketown operator Motivate Inc. Portland’s current contract with Lyft ended … Read more
