This morning in Ybor City, Coast Bike Share officially kicked off its bike sharing program for urban Tampa.
Spirits were high as Mayor Bob Buckhorn declared Tampa “a connected community offering bike sharing as part of the local transportation offerings.”
After several years of working to realize this program, Karen Kress from the Tampa Downtown Partnership was thrilled.
The bike stations are located on Davis Islands, Hyde Park, and in several locations in downtown Tampa and Ybor City. Users can pay $5/hour or $30/month. Founding members (I was one of them) pay $99 and get to ride 90 minutes a day for free — and get a new helmet.
Sign up online at coastbikeshare.com.
This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2014.