May 21, 2018
Comments Off on Boise wants to hear more about Lime’s dockless bike sharing program
The San Mateo, California, dockless bike sharing program Lime has been making the rounds among Treasure Valley cities with the Boise City Council the latest stop on May 15. The year-old bike sharing program already has more than 35,000 bikes ...
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Skateboarders and kayakers already have their specialty parks in Boise, and now Boise Parks & Recreation is focusing on mountain bikers. A bike skills park with tracks, rollers and other skill elements for mountain bikers will be built between Fort ...
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March 10, 2017
Comments Off on Boise GreenBike adds bicycles and stations
Boise’s bike sharing program will double the number of stations where riders can rent and return bikes and add 15 bikes to the fleet. Boise GreenBike will enter its third year in April with 129 bicycles, a number that director ...
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March 7, 2017
Comments Off on Boise’s playing catch-up on bike and pedestrian paths
In just a few years, the American bike lane concept has matured beyond a hastily painted add-on at the edge of a road. Now descriptions include protected, buffered, contraflow, shared-use, cycle tracks, separate bike paths and greenways. Minneapolis even calls ...
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May 17, 2016
Comments Off on Bike and pedestrian safety, simplified
Peter Lagerwey likes to emphasize street crossings when he talks about pedestrian safety. “Where do we put all our energy? Putting in sidewalks,” said Lagerwey, a former Seattle senior transportation planner who now tours the country regarding bicycle and pedestrian ...
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The Idaho Walk Bike Alliance will host its first Walk Bike Summit May 11-13 to promote better non-motorized transportation facilities and policy throughout Idaho. The summit will center around presentations at the Boise Centre but will also include mobile tours, ...
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March 8, 2016
Comments Off on ACHD open house presents Idaho Street and Main Street bike lane options
The Ada County Highway District on April 27 will decide whether to add bicycle lanes to Idaho and Main streets in downtown Boise between Broadway and 16th Street. ACHD will have an open house March 16 at the Boise City ...
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November 20, 2015
Comments Off on Boise bike sharing catches on in first year
Bike sharing in Boise ends its first fair weather riding season with 3,395 members enrolled in Boise GreenBike, the local bike sharing program that is a service of Valley Regional Transit. This is a program where people can pay $4 ...
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June 25, 2015
Comments Off on COMPASS grants will bring bike improvements to Boise State
Boise State University will improve its bicycle amenities over the next year thanks to $28,000 in grant funding from the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho. BSU applied to COMPASS to help pay for more bike pump sections, add a ...
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May 28, 2015
Comments Off on Boiseans are trying out the bike share
Boise’s bike share program attracted 566 individual riders in its first month or so of operation, the program director said. Through May 21, most riders using Boise Green Bike are pay-as-you-go customers who buy 60-minutes for $4 that can be ...
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