With snow (hopefully) behind us until fall, the bikes and scooters of Cedar Rapids’ bike share program are available again. This is the fourth year for what the city calls its “micromobility program.” The city launched the bike-share program in […]
Robert Henderson bikes to get around Iowa City. It’s his main transportation. He works at Carlos O’Kelly’s cooking, washing dishes and bussing tables. He locks his bicycle behind the building by the dumpster. There’s a locked gate, too, just in […]
The Cedar Rapids bike share program is returning this year with electric scooters, electric-assist bikes and a new addition to the fleet. The bikes and scooters are expected to begin arriving by Friday, according to a news release. A few […]
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 […]
The number of scooters will increase from 30 to 80, and the full fleet of 150 bikes will be brought back in the spring once weather allows. Officials also shared potential plans to add an adaptive bike to the fleet. The city launched the bike-share program in May 2019 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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