A bike rider pedals past the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit station in Larkspur on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) Crews will begin installing bicycle-share parking hubs along the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit corridor starting next month, Marin transportation officials said.
The long-awaited program, called the Redwood Bikeshare, is a two-year pilot offering 300 e-bikes at approximately 60 hubs in the two counties. The program, originally set to launch in 2022, was delayed after the contractor hired to run the program suddenly went out of business.
No launch date has been announced, but planners say the bikes will be operational this fall.
Anne Richman, executive director of the Transportation Authority of Marin, told the board of directors Thursday that staff are “looking ahead to the next few weeks of activity.”
“It’s been a lot of work,” Richman said. “As you may remember, some fits and starts along the way. We are oh so close.”
The project is being funded by a $826,000 grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area’s transportation planning agency.
The grant came to the Sonoma County Transportation Authority in 2018. TAM is jointly overseeing the program with the Sonoma agency.The Sonoma agency had initially approved a three-year pilot contract with Bolt Mobility to position the bikes in seven cities along the SMART corridor. But Bolt Mobility shut down because of the pandemic.Last year, Drop Mobility was hired to be the bike-share service provider.The vehicles are class 1 pedal-assist e-bikes that reach top speed at 15 mph, said Scott […]
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