With the kinks worked out, dockless bike sharing could roll
By David Alpert October 29, 2017
Image by the author.
Bright orange, green and yellow bikes are sprouting up all around central D.C. and Silver Spring, with a smattering elsewhere. They go by Jump, Spin, LimeBike, Mobike and ofo (written in all lowercase, to look typographically like a bike symbol).
This is dockless bike sharing, the newest arrow in the region’s transportation quiver. If successful, dockless bike-sharing technology could help move more people affordably and in less space—the fundamental geometric challenge of transportation. If 10 people on these bikes can fit in the space of one car, that could mean nine fewer cars adding to traffic.
However, there are some pitfalls. DC Sustainable Transportation, a coalition of business, government and advocacy organizations (which I head), has been working on policy recommendations for governments around dockless bike sharing.
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