Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The augmented program would continue bike sharing in the current participating cities of San Jose and San Francisco while also for the first time bringing bike sharing across the Bay into the East Bay cities of Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland. The agreement with the private provider, Motivate, also allows for future expansion beyond these five cities.
The expansion plan would increase the current fleet of 700 bikes to 7,000, making this the second largest bike share program in the nation.