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Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan
LA is rolling out a 4000 bike system next year. the mayor announced it during the last CycLAvia a couple weekends ago. they are going to focus on Downtown, Hollywood, Westwood Village and a couple more dense areas of the city and then expand from there.
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A couple more details on LA's system:
- 4,000 bikes at 400 stations will be rolled out over the next 18 months, making it one of the larger systems in the country, but not quite as large as NYC's system.
- They are
not going with the tried-and-true Bixi system, and instead going with a company called Bike Nation.
- The system will be privately run and funded, using revenue from ads placed at stations, a la DC's first system "Smartbike DC". This makes me worried, because that system flopped when ClearChannel refused to expand it. However, Bike Nation seems more enthusiastic than ClearChannel was about expanding, so hopefully LA's system will work out differently.
More info here:
http://la.streetsblog.org/2012/04/27...ikes-and-more/