Ford GoBike is a regional public bicycle sharing system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Beginning operation in August 2013 as Bay Area Bike Share, the Ford GoBike system currently has 2,500 bicycles in 260 stations across San Francisco, East Bay and San Jose. On June 28, 2017, the system officially launched as Ford GoBike in a partnership with Ford Motor Company. The system is expected to expand to 7,000 bicycles around 540 stations in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, and San Jose. The system is operated by Motivate in a partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Ford GoBike is the first regional and large-scale bicycle sharing system deployed in California and on the West Coast of the United States.
Video Ford GoBike
Description
It is the first regional bicycle sharing system deployed on the West Coast of the United States and also the first regional system in the U.S. that services more than just a single city or adjacent cities.
The system is operated by Motivate (formerly Alta Bicycle Share Inc.) in a partnership with the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and was supported with about US$11 million in initial public funding from several regional transportation, environmental and municipal agencies. Motivate also operates several other programs in the United States. Stations and bikes are provided by 8D Technologies and Motivate. In April 2018, Ford GoBike announced they would soon rollout electric bikes as part of their fleet at no additional cost.
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Pricing
The bicycles are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for periods ranging from a single ride (up to 30 minutes) to a day pass, in 30-minute increments, or customers can purchase an annual subscription which gives them unlimited rides up to 45-minutes in duration.
See also
- List of bicycle sharing systems
References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia