After many years of wishful thinking, high hopes and false starts, bike-share bicycles will be unleashed on the streets of Philadelphia tomorrow.
The bike share service Indego officially kicks off with a “ride off” beginning at Eakins Oval tomorrow morning to launch the service. Tickets for those inaugural rides are sold out. But you can get a bike and do your own ride off tomorrow if you like.
An important note for folks around here, though – the stations planned for Clark Park, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 44th and Walnut near the Supremo Shop ‘n Bag and Mantua Haverford Community Center (39th and Mt. Vernon) are still listed as “coming soon” or “unavailable” rather than “active” on the map of stations around the city.
That leaves eight stations in West Philly open for business tomorrow. See the map here.
April 29th, 2015 at 11:40 am
I saw the bikes in front of the U Penn dental school yesterday. I sat on one of them and found it to be very comfortable and sturdy. The seats are adjustable and have nice adjustment mechanism.
But when I looked at the rental pricing on the kiosk, I was shocked. It’s $4.00 for only 30 minutes. You can pay $15 for one month of up to *one hour* usage each time.
Where are people going to go that they would rent a bike for 30 minutes? Or an hour for that matter? I find it way overpriced and overly restricted.
If it remains as it is, I am sure it will fail.