It was disappointing and a bit disheartening to see Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and Transportation Director Michelle Pourciau announce last week that the Baltimore Bike Share program was being shut down Aug. 15. The bike-sharing venture certainly endured a rocky ...

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Baltimore’s bicycle-sharing program, hampered by thefts and maintenances woes, is shutting down for several weeks. Transportation director Michelle Pourciau tells The Baltimore Sun that Baltimore Bike Share will close Sunday. She says additional locking equipment will be installed on the docks, and ...

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Bike share programs may live up to their hype and improve parking crunches in cities, according to one study. A working paper from academics at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University studying Shadyside and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods in ...

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Downtown Partnership of Baltimore will subsidize memberships in the city’s bike share program for low-income residents starting this spring. Kirby Fowler, the partnership’s president, said the idea for this program came from a staff member who worked at Boston’s bike ...

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