Motivate and LimeBike share their vision for dockless bike share in the Twin Cities
Motivate and LimeBike participated in a forum held by Nice Ride in partnership with Our Streets Minneapolis and the Saint Paul Bicycle Coalition to share their thoughts for a dockless bike share in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Motivate and LimeBike presented their ideas for how they would incorporate their bike shares into Nice Ride’s current docked system and into the Twin Cities. The companies then participated in a Question and Answer section with questions from the audience.
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New protected bike lanes coming 2018
The Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee had their monthly meeting this past Wednesday Oct. 25. Chris Linde from Ward 3 gave an update from the Engineering subcommittee about the 2018 Protected Bikeways, mostly these upgrades move away from bollard protected bikeways to curb protected bikeways.
The bike lane updates expected are to upgrade the Plymouth Ave N and 8th St NE protected bike lanes from bollards to to curb protected and to extend these farther west, to upgrade part of Blaisdell Ave S protected bike lane from bollards to the city’s first planter-protected bike lane, to upgrade the 11th Ave S protected bike lane in downtown from bollards to curb protected, and to upgrade the 12th St buffered bike lane from 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave to off-street protected, this eventually being incorporated into the eventual Grant Street bikeway to connect to Loring Park, moving from a one way lane to a two way lane. The BAC passed a motion to support these bike lane updates.
Rendering of what the 11th Ave curb protected bike lanes will look like:
