Seattle’s scooter and bike share program is navigating a bit of a bumpy road as one company with devices on city streets has filed for bankruptcy and another is reportedly… Read More
A new blue Bird has been spotted in Seattle. The company know for its silver, standing e-scooters is bringing bikes to the city as part of the Department of Transportation’s… Read More
A new electric-assist bike company is joining the mix of bikes and scooters on the streets of Seattle as the city is expanding transportation sharing options. Chicago-based Veo plans to… Read More
Laying out its vision for a fossil-fuel-free future, the City of Seattle has released an ambitious plan to electrify its transportation system, with a list goals over the next nine… Read More
Lime will double the number of bikes available to rent in Seattle, but says the long-term viability of the service depends on whether city officials also allow its scooter-share program… Read More
Seattle’s bike-share drought ends Monday as JUMP bikes return, one of the first rollouts since ownership of the service transferred from Uber to Lime. Once the nation’s pioneer in dockless… Read More
Three years ago, thousands of candy-colored shared bicycles appeared on Seattle streets, rebranding the characteristically gray-green city with a theme park aesthetic. Despite complaints about clutter, the arrival of dockless… Read More
As cities across the country embrace new mobility services like bike and scooter-share, sidewalks are getting awfully crowded. The growing number of bikes and scooters parked on sidewalks can make… Read More
Video footage of a Lime electric bike spewing flames on the University of Washington campus in Seattle this week is the latest in a string of battery-related safety issues affecting… Read More
Uber is expanding its JUMP bike-share service to the entire City of Seattle as it competes with Lime, the other bike rental player in the region. What’s new: Starting Tuesday, JUMP… Read More
Uber is expanding its JUMP bike-share service to additional neighborhoods in Seattle, pledging to add 2,000 new bikes to its fleet over the next few weeks. The new service area… Read More
Seattleites have to deal with some of the worst traffic congestion in the country. According to traffic technology and data firm INRIX, drivers in Seattle spend about 55 hours stuck… Read More
Uber is eagerly awaiting final bike-share regulations from the Seattle Department of Transporation so it can deploy JUMP — its competitor to Lime, Spin, and Ofo — in the city.… Read More
Updated, June 8, 12:05 p.m. PT: More details from LimeBike have been added to the story below. If you need a LimeBike in North Seattle today, your best bet would… Read More
There were 10,000 dockless bike share bikes scattered across Seattle at the end of 2017, nearly a quarter of all units nationwide. That was one of the findings in a… Read More
When Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda spotted a runaway JUMP bike on a ferry in Seattle, he put GeekWire on the case. The dockless bike-share service, recently acquired by Uber,… Read More
Ofo is the latest Seattle bike-share service to warn riders of brake lines being cut in acts of vandalism. In March, Ofo competitors Spin and LimeBike issued similar warnings to… Read More
Uber is expanding further into the competitive dockless bike-sharing space with the acquisition of JUMP. JUMP CEO Ryan Rzepecki announced his electric bike-sharing startup will join Uber but retain its distinct… Read More
City planners and researchers are eager to get feedback on Seattle’s novel dockless bike sharing pilot to determine whether it is a viable mobility solution or an oversaturated fad. The… Read More
Update, March 21, 3:40 p.m. PT: This story has been updated with additional information from LimeBike, the Seattle Department of Transportation, and more. Two dockless bike sharing companies in Seattle… Read More
Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are planning a small dockless bike-sharing program, which allows residents to… Read More
Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around the world. The round was led by China’s e-commerce giant… Read More
Uber is getting into the bike-sharing game. The transportation network is partnering with electric bike-share company JUMP on a limited pilot in San Francisco. Participants in the pilot can pick… Read More
Seattle’s novel bike-sharing pilot is crossing the finish line as 2017 comes to a close. With the training wheels off, Seattle’s now-ubiquitous neon bicycle fleets will continue operating on city… Read More
Kyle Rowe is very into bikes. He spent the past four years in the Seattle Department of Transportation working on various biking initiatives, including the pilot program that brought thousands… Read More
After a remarkably dry summer, Seattle is finally bracing for the long months of wet weather ahead. The series of storms passing through herald the season of Netflix binges, pho,… Read More
Seattle, brace yourself for more neon bikes. Spin Bike and LimeBike are expanding their Seattle fleets to 3,000 each. When we last checked in with the dockless bicycle sharing companies,… Read More
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) got the green light to launch a pilot bike-share program in May of 2017. By July, bright orange and green shared bicycles hit the… Read More
Are crimped fries the same as waffle fries? What’s an Instant Pot? And what on earth is going on with all these bikes? These are some of the gripping questions… Read More
Seattle has been inundated by thousands of neon bicycles since Spin and LimeBike launched in late July — and it’s just the beginning. Two more companies have filed for permits… Read More