Articles about bike share

Scooter share in Seattle navigates potential bumps as bankruptcy and shutdown hit two providers

Seattle’s scooter and bike share program is navigating a bit of a bumpy road as one company with devices on… Read More

Bird watching: Scooter-share company adding bikes to the last-mile mix in Seattle

A new blue Bird has been spotted in Seattle. The company know for its silver, standing e-scooters is bringing bikes… Read More

New bike-share company to bring 1,500 e-bikes to Seattle streets by spring to boost mobility options

A new electric-assist bike company is joining the mix of bikes and scooters on the streets of Seattle as the… Read More

Seattle’s clean transportation blueprint spells out ambitious goals for electrification and habit shifts

Laying out its vision for a fossil-fuel-free future, the City of Seattle has released an ambitious plan to electrify its… Read More

Lime adds more JUMP bikes in Seattle but says long-term viability hinges on city allowing scooters

Lime will double the number of bikes available to rent in Seattle, but says the long-term viability of the service… Read More

JUMP bikes return to Seattle under Lime ownership

Seattle’s bike-share drought ends Monday as JUMP bikes return, one of the first rollouts since ownership of the service transferred… Read More

Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

Three years ago, thousands of candy-colored shared bicycles appeared on Seattle streets, rebranding the characteristically gray-green city with a theme… Read More

Seattle explores on-street bike and scooter parking to clear up cluttered sidewalks

As cities across the country embrace new mobility services like bike and scooter-share, sidewalks are getting awfully crowded. The growing… Read More

Dramatic footage of exploding Lime bike battery highlights safety issues

Video footage of a Lime electric bike spewing flames on the University of Washington campus in Seattle this week is… Read More

Uber’s JUMP bike-share now serving all Seattle neighborhoods

Uber is expanding its JUMP bike-share service to the entire City of Seattle as it competes with Lime, the other… Read More

Uber expands JUMP bike-share service to more Seattle neighborhoods

Uber is expanding its JUMP bike-share service to additional neighborhoods in Seattle, pledging to add 2,000 new bikes to its… Read More

Lime previews shared e-scooters in Seattle, seeking public support to end the city’s ban

Seattleites have to deal with some of the worst traffic congestion in the country. According to traffic technology and data… Read More

We tested out a JUMP e-bike as Uber plans Seattle launch of the dockless bike-share service

Uber is eagerly awaiting final bike-share regulations from the Seattle Department of Transporation so it can deploy JUMP — its… Read More

Epic prank by seniors at Seattle high school fills parking lot with bike-share bicycles

Updated, June 8, 12:05 p.m. PT: More details from LimeBike have been added to the story below. If you need… Read More

State of bike share: 10K bikes in Seattle — out of 44K nationwide — and 468K rides, study finds

There were 10,000 dockless bike share bikes scattered across Seattle at the end of 2017, nearly a quarter of all… Read More

Mystery solved: The story behind a rogue JUMP bike spotted in Seattle

When Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda spotted a runaway JUMP bike on a ferry in Seattle, he put GeekWire on… Read More

Ofo joins Spin and LimeBike warning Seattle riders of brake lines deliberately cut

Ofo is the latest Seattle bike-share service to warn riders of brake lines being cut in acts of vandalism. In… Read More

Uber moves into multimodal transportation with acquisition of bike-share startup JUMP

Uber is expanding further into the competitive dockless bike-sharing space with the acquisition of JUMP. JUMP CEO Ryan Rzepecki announced… Read More

Everyone wants to know how Seattle’s dockless bike share experiment is going

City planners and researchers are eager to get feedback on Seattle’s novel dockless bike sharing pilot to determine whether it… Read More

Bike sharing companies Spin, LimeBike warn riders of brake lines being cut on bicycles in Seattle

Update, March 21, 3:40 p.m. PT: This story has been updated with additional information from LimeBike, the Seattle Department of… Read More

Dockless bike sharing is expanding to Bellevue, applying lessons from Seattle

Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are… Read More

Chinese bike-sharing juggernaut Ofo raises $866 million from Alibaba and other investors

Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around… Read More

Uber partners with JUMP on electric bike share pilot in San Francisco

Uber is getting into the bike-sharing game. The transportation network is partnering with electric bike-share company JUMP on a limited… Read More

As Seattle’s bike-sharing pilot concludes, here’s what 2018 has in store for the neon newcomers

Seattle’s novel bike-sharing pilot is crossing the finish line as 2017 comes to a close. With the training wheels off,… Read More

Tech Moves: Spin bike-share service hires Seattle transportation official; F5 CMO stepping down; and more

Kyle Rowe is very into bikes. He spent the past four years in the Seattle Department of Transportation working on… Read More

With rains pounding Seattle, here’s the winter plan for the neon shared bikes scattered across the city

After a remarkably dry summer, Seattle is finally bracing for the long months of wet weather ahead. The series of… Read More

Seattle bike shares show no signs of slowing as LimeBike and Spin expand to 3,000 bicycles each

Seattle, brace yourself for more neon bikes. Spin Bike and LimeBike are expanding their Seattle fleets to 3,000 each. When… Read More

Seattle sets a new standard for private companies to launch public services, and other cities take note

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) got the green light to launch a pilot bike-share program in May of 2017.… Read More

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Are crimped fries the same as waffle fries? What’s an Instant Pot? And what on earth is going on with… Read More

More bikes?! How the latest entrants in Seattle’s crowded bike-share market plan to compete

Seattle has been inundated by thousands of neon bicycles since Spin and LimeBike launched in late July — and it’s… Read More