Bikeshare Program Makes Cycling Lifestyle Easy
January 12, 2012
Many Western countries are encouraging their citizens to ride bicycles to work in an effort to reduce traffic congestion as well as to help save the environment. In Washington and some of its near-by suburbs, local governments are making the bicycle lifestyle easy
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This is one of the many Bikeshare locations in southeast Washington. Renting a bike is as easy as 1.2.3. All you have to do is put in your credit card. Once the card is accepted, select the type of membership. The system will print your receipt and a code to unlock the bicycle. Enter that code in this digital lock, the light turns green and you are ready to roll.
Annual members get a plastic key, which goes into this electronic lock. Returning the bicycle is also easy. You can go to any Bikeshare location and push the bike back into the rack.
Washington's local government started this program in September 2010. Today there are 134 stations with 1,100 bicycles in the nation's capital and the neighboring city of Arlington, Virginia.
Chris Holben is the project director of Washington's Capital Bikeshare program. The program offers a wide variety of membership options - for a single day, 3 days, one month, or a full year. Holben says the number of annual memberships is increasing.
"We have about 20,000 annual members who can walk up take a bike out," said Holben. "We also had about 90,000 visitors use our bikes. Those were tourists or people here for the day".
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