Colorado Springs’ Downtown Partnership announced Thursday the addition of a bicycle-sharing program — to be called PikeCycle — that will allow local residents, tourists and others to pay a small fee to borrow bikes for use in downtown and elsewhere.
Bike sharing programs are popular in large metro areas, such as Denver, New York and Washington, D.C., college towns like Boulder, and midsize cities.
Downtown Ventures, a nonprofit arm of the Downtown Partnership, is targeting a spring launch for PikeCycle. Kaiser Permanente, the state’s largest nonprofit health care provider, will co-sponsor the program, although additional sponsors still are needed to make the project a reality, Edmondson said.
PikeCycle’s first phase is expected to serve 46,000 households within three miles of Legacy Loop, the 10-mile trail system that circles downtown. As envisioned, more than 200 bikes and 26 bike stations would be available as part of the program.
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