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
