District Bike Sharing Launches

Posted: August 17th, 2008 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Biking, District of Columbia, Transportation | 2 Comments »

The much-awaited D.C. bike sharing program SmartBike has launched with ten locations in Downtown and Midcity neighborhoods. The public can sign up at SmartBikeDC.com for a card enabling them to rent bikes for up to three hours from these stations between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The annual subscription costs $40.

Clear Channel Smartbike Washington DCAccording to the program press release, “Plans to further expand the program are currently under way. DDOT is planning to place additional stations in other neighborhoods in spherical paths working towards the outer parts of the city.” It occurs to me a logical place to expand the system would be at Metro stations, something they already seem to be doing with the downtown locations.

2 Comments on “District Bike Sharing Launches”

  1. #1 Dave Reid said at 2:31 pm on August 17th, 2008:

    I’m glad to see D.C. starting up a bike sharing program because the idea seems to be spreading from across the pond!

  2. #2 Shawn said at 11:40 am on August 26th, 2008:

    I’ve got my card and rented a bike already–it’s great!

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