Some innovative Lansing folks are making the Capital City the state’s first with a program for sharing “smart” bikes, a system that will allow riders to rent a bike conveniently.
Nationwide, large cities such as New York, Denver and Minneapolis have bike-share programs. Lansing’s effort is launching with help from the Capital Community Bike Share and an Ann Arbor-based company called A2B Bikeshare, which created bikes with solar panels that power equipment to processes credit cards and operate GPS tracking. The new system has a lower startup cost than those using conventional bikes and will operate on a three-month demonstration with about 40 racks installed around the city by late July. May it become another amenity that contributes to the region’s high quality of life.
— Lansing (Mich.) State Journal
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