Hawaii is responding to the recent bike-sharing frenzy by introducing its own pilot B-Cycle program in the city of Kailua in December. The initiative is intended to offer a healthy choice of transportation, lessen the volume of traffic on the roads and improve the current car-cyclist relationship.
“B-Cycle is more for the residents of Kailua than for the tourists,” said Nguyen Le of Momentum MultiSport. “It is to provide a way for the residents to get around for short trips by bike instead of by car. The reason Kailua was chosen was because it is a geographically small area with natural divisions by the ocean and the high hills. It has a population density so a cycling program can service the community adequately which is what made it a good candidate for a pilot program.”
More Here:
Year-round Bike Sharing Hits The Hawaiian Islands – BikeRadar.
For clarification purposes I had the following message sent to me from cyclist Mike Zagorski:
Their is a b-cycle program starting in kailua on o’ahu driven by momentum multisports owner nguyen le. (Sponsor of my cycling team)
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