Cedar Rapids’ bike-share program is returning for the summer. Bikes and scooters will arrive within the first two weeks of June, the city announced on Friday. There will be 150 electric-assist bikes and 70 electric scooters around the city, as well as 90 designated bike racks. The city launched the bike-share program in May 2019 […]
bike-share program
Electric-assist bikes and (even more) e-scooters returning to Cedar Rapids in the spring
After five years of false starts, Iowa City’s bike-share program will (probably) start in April

Last year, the Iowa City Department of Transportation announced the city’s long-awaited bike-share program was scheduled to launch “in the fall” of 2019. That didn’t happen. Just like it didn’t happen in 2018, despite the department announcing it planned to start the program in the fall of that year. […]
Ride an e-scooter or electric-assist bike for free in Cedar Rapids Thursday

Last month, Cedar Rapids became the first city in Iowa to introduce electric scooters, as part of its bike-share program. People who have yet to try the e-scooters — or the electric-assist bikes introduced earlier this year — can do so for free on Thursday, Oct. 3, for the city’s “Move More Week.” Thirty scooters are available in various parts of […]