{"id":441,"date":"2016-10-02T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/ford-backs-massive-bike-share-expansion-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html"},"modified":"2016-10-02T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:23:53","slug":"ford-backs-massive-bike-share-expansion-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/ford-backs-massive-bike-share-expansion-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html","title":{"rendered":"Ford backs massive bike-share expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"


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At a press conference in San Francisco today, Ford Motor Co.<\/a>\u00a0president and CEO Mark Fields announced that the company had both acquired a rideshare startup called Chariot<\/a>\u00a0and made a significant investment in expanding the region\u2019s bike-share program.<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s sponsorship will see the Bay Area\u2019s supply of shareable bikes expand from 700 to 7,000 by 2018, with 1,350 bikes going to the East Bay, and hundreds of new bike-share stations established to distribute the bikes.<\/p>\n

The locations of the bike stations are still being determined, but these will be in and around Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose, not just in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The bike-share program is managed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission<\/a> in the Bay Area, and operated by a startup called Motivate, which also operates popular bike-share programs around the country, with their largest market in New York.<\/p>\n

Motivate<\/a>\u00a0president and CEO Jay Walder said his company saw 10 million bike-share trips taken in New York in 2015, and that bike share would become part of the fabric of cities, increasingly. He did not offer projections for San Francisco bike-share usage.<\/p>\n

In terms of technology, the bikes, now branded as the Ford GoBike, are not much to behold. They\u2019re manufactured by Motivate and assembled domestically by Detroit Bikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t include racks for cargo, a helmet or systems that would allow them to be parked or picked up anywhere. They\u2019re more the sturdy, traditional bike-share bike with an electronic tracking and locking system.<\/p>\n

In addition to ramping up the local, shareable bike supply, Ford will begin to show bike stations and available bikes within its Ford Pass app<\/a>, said Fields.<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s Pass app aims to be a single place where users can find available transportation or mobility options nearby whenever they need them.<\/p>\n

Politicians and advocates \u2014 including San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and San Jose Mayor and MTC Commissioner Sam Liccardo \u2014 showed up to ballyhoo the bike-share expansion and promote the idea that mobility options and transportation should be provided by not just public agencies but large, private sector partners.<\/p>\n

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