{"id":24713,"date":"2016-04-29T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2016-04-29T18:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T18:54:58","slug":"portlands-expanded-bikesharing-program-launching-july-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/portlands-expanded-bikesharing-program-launching-july-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland\u2019s Expanded Bikesharing Program Launching In July (Map)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a substantial amount of waiting, Portland, Oregon, will soon be home to its first major bikesharing program — with the launch of the recently expanded (before it was even launched) “Biketown” service now slated for July.<\/p>\n

As you may have heard, the new bikesharing program is being sponsored by Nike (to the tune of $10 million) — which means there’s a fair amount of money behind the project, and hence the viability of the recent pre-launch expansion.<\/p>\n

At launch,\u00a0the service will feature 100 stations and 1,000 bicycles<\/a> — a roughly 66% bigger program than was initially put forward.<\/p>\n

\"bikesharing<\/a><\/p>\n

Bike Portland<\/a><\/em> provides some more information:<\/p>\n

The service area still focuses on the central city, but it\u2019s been expanded to cover more of northwest and southeast Portland. The initial service area had a northwest border of Raleigh and 24th. That has now been expanded three blocks to Vaughn. The largest expansion comes in southeast. Where the initial map stopped along 12th and went from NE Broadway to SE Powell, the new map extends bike share along SE Clinton and Belmont as far east as Cesar Chavez (39th).<\/em><\/p>\n

A draft station map released by the Bureau of Transportation today shows 300 candidate locations. Now the process begins for whittling them down to a final 100. PBOT also released an interactive tool that allows anyone to drop a pin on a map and suggest a location<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

…Since the vast majority of Biketown customers will be local residents (as opposed to tourists, which make up a tiny share of users in other cities) and most of Portland\u2019s everyday bike riders already have a bike, PBOT is banking that bike share will appeal to the 60% of Portlanders who\u2019d like to try cycling but have various concerns that keep them away. \u201cThe \u2018interested but concerned\u2019 have been really difficult to move off the fence,\u201d said Hoyt-McBeth, \u201cBike share seems to be really effective to get people to change their behavior.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Biketown program can be utilized either by the 30-min block ($2.50), or through an annual pass that provisions 90 minutes of “free” travel a day (for $10-15\/month).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a substantial amount of waiting, Portland, Oregon, will soon be home to its first major bikesharing program — with the launch of the recently expanded (before it was even launched) “Biketown” service now slated for July. As you may have heard, the new bikesharing program is being sponsored by Nike (to the tune of …<\/p>\n

Portland\u2019s Expanded Bikesharing Program Launching In July (Map)<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":24734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[1670,235],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland.jpg",535,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland-256x300.jpg",256,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland.jpg",535,628,false],"large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland.jpg",535,628,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland.jpg",535,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bikesharing-portland.jpg",535,628,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"James Ayre","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/nathan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"After a substantial amount of waiting, Portland, Oregon, will soon be home to its first major bikesharing program — with the launch of the recently expanded (before it was even launched) “Biketown” service now slated for July. 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