This is good news.
A new measure in Montgomery County would allow bike-sharing stations to be built with revenue from taxes paid by developers, which currently fund transportation projects like roads and buses.
The bill, sponsored by County Council President Roger Berliner, D-Bethesda, and Councilwoman Valerie Ervin, D-Silver Spring, will be introduced tomorrow.
Berliner and Ervin also plan to introduce on Tuesday legislation that would allow developers to build bike-sharing stations on their property without going through the normal regulatory process.
Both of these laws should make CaBi exapansion in the county faster and easier.
Not to nitpick but, the story should be corrected though on the number of stations and bikes. They have 1670+ bikes at 175+ stations, not 1200 and 140.
Bravo Montgomery Co.
Not to nitpick your nitpick, but there are currently 189 CB stations and around 1600 bikes operational at any one time.
Posted by: Chris Eatough, BikeArlington Program Manager | September 10, 2012 at 08:04 AM
A bit confused.
Are you talking about developers putting stations down with their own cash (the coveted sponsor goal) or when Alta want to place on a station on developer property?
Posted by: charlie | September 10, 2012 at 08:33 AM
Chris, I put plus signs....and I got those numbers right off the CaBi webite too.
charlie, I think the second part is about developers putting stations in with their own money.
Posted by: washcycle | September 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM