Bike Sharing Huge Success In Europe
We tried a variation of 'bike sharing' in Spokane years ago, with the result that a lot of the lilac-painted bicycles ended up in the river or stolen.
This New York Times article tells how some new technology is keeping things like that from happening, and making bike sharing a huge sucess in Europe.
Do you think bike sharing would work if we tried it again, with the technology mentioned in the story?
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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
We tried a variation of 'bike sharing' in Spokane years ago, with the result that a lot of the lilac-painted bicycles ended up in the river or stolen. This New York Times article tells how some new technology is keeping things like that from happening, and making bike sharing a huge sucess in Europe.
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