Posted Oct 2, 2023, 2:47 PM
|
 |
FYHA
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Houston - Wichita, KS
Posts: 3,153
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wattleigh
|
Funding approved to create the system
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...t-18388197.php
Quote:
Second bike sharing vendor coming to Houston, with Metro approval of transit-focused system
Dug Begley,
Staff writer
Sep. 28, 2023
Updated: Oct. 1, 2023 5:41 p.m.
More publicly available bikes are bound for Houston sidewalks in the coming months as Metro officials approved spending $10.6 million to create its own bicycle sharing network, aimed at largely replacing the existing and floundering nonprofit system.
Metropolitan Transit Authority board members on Thursday approved a contract with PBSC Urban Solutions, the Canadian company that manages and provides bikes and technology for bike share system in some of North America’s largest cities.
"This gets us from the limbo we are in, with the potential of not having a bike share system in the fourth largest city," said Metro board chairman Sanjay Ramabhadran.
The system would start with 20 kiosks and 170 bikes, installed by mid-2024, officials said. Annually, plans call for adding 20 more stations and 170 bikes for up to four consecutive years. Spread across both the vendor for the bikes and kiosks, and the company that will maintain the system, Metro expects to spend $10.6 million.
Transit officials have said the system is intended to connect riders to transit, meaning kiosks will be concentrated on where they can either replace bus and rail trips, or connect riders to other travel options.
|
|