Lime informed its Seattle customers Tuesday morning that it will remove its e-bikes from the city over the next week, a new wrinkle in the city’s deliberations over a scooter-sharing… Read More
Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien said he has been a bicycle commuter for 20 years. On the plaza on Thursday in front of City Hall, O’Brien showed up carrying his… Read More
As it continues to expand around the globe amid reports of a potential acquisition by Uber, transportation startup Lime today touted new metrics that reflect the company’s growing footprint. Lime… Read More
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People who use bike-sharing services are often criticized for not wearing bike helmets, but that was the least of the issues Saturday in Seattle. The traditional naked bike ride at… 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
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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
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
Certain people in my house are big fans of the Lime-E shareable electric bikes as a new option for getting around the neighborhood, so we were excited when we spotted… 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
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One of the best parts of the new bike-sharing services is that they’re dockless, or free-floating, allowing riders to leave the bikes pretty much anywhere. It’s also one of the… Read More
LimeBike has a new executive: Scott Kubly, the former Seattle official who oversaw the biggest transportation levy in city history, the municipal purchase of the now-defunct Pronto cycle service, and… Read More
Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues to rise — in fact, it became the third most… Read More
The phrase “it’s just like riding a bike” has never resonated with me. I know it’s supposed to mean that the task ahead will be smooth, easy and familiar, but… Read More
The hilly streets of Seattle and San Francisco are often intimidating to would-be cyclists. LimeBike hopes to help them get over the hump with new additions to its fleet. Today,… 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
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
In the increasingly crowded world of on-demand transportation options and the apps designed to hail and use those options, a new player is launching in Seattle with the hope of… 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
You’d have to be completely oblivious to miss the thousands of neon-colored bike-share bicycles that hit the streets of Seattle this summer. But have you looked for the ones that… Read More
Two of Seattle’s new bike-sharing services are making their bicycles more accessible to folks without a smartphone or credit card. Spin announced today that it is rolling out Spin Access,… Read More
Welcome to Seattle, yellow bikes. Beijing-based Ofo just launched its bike-sharing service in the Emerald City, joining other companies like Spin and LimeBike that have placed thousands of bicycles around… 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
Finding a bike to rent in Seattle shouldn’t be a difficult problem come next week. RELATED: We pitted Spin vs. LimeBike on the streets of Seattle Bike-sharing companies Spin and LimeBike… Read More