Denver is having a press conference tomorrow morning to introduce its Citywide Bike Sharing program
Join Denver Mayor Hickenlooper as he kicks-off Denver B-cycle! The Mayor will hold a launch event at the Wellington Webb Municipal Building to kick-off the Denver B-cycle pilot program for city employees as well as announce plans for the Citywide Bike Sharing program which will begin Summer 2009.
Here's the thing, Bike Denver is saying that "Denver is poised to become the first U.S. city to introduce a large-scale permanent bike share program."
Hold on there, have you heard of a little thing we in these parts like to call SmartBike? That's right - in business since August '08. As in "before summer 2009." Perhaps they're claiming first "large-scale" because they're going to have closer to 500 bikes. Lame.
Seriously it takes a lot of nerve to run around calling yourself "first" when clearly you are not.
I guess they can say they have the first "large scale" bike sharing system. However you define that.
Posted by: Eric | January 14, 2009 at 01:21 PM
Denver will launch with 500 bikes by this summer, and another 500 proposed for 2010. Still not Velib, but much larger than Smart Bike which Ddot has labeled as a "pilot project" for sometime now. But yeah, we're the first city that matters I guess.
Posted by: jeff | January 14, 2009 at 03:56 PM