Atlanta announced yesterday that the city’s long talked about bike share program will be up and running later this year.  It will feature 500 bikes at up to 50 different stations around the city, according to Creative Loafing.  Here are a few more details supplied by CL…

The city’s planning department is currently determining where to install the bike share stations. The bike share operation will use Social Bicycles’ smart-bike system to equip each bike with a GPS-enabled locking device. That system will allow a rider to park the bike at any public bike rack or rental station. Officials also plan to set up a website and mobile app to allow riders to find and rent available bicycles.

You may recall that when word of a Atlanta bike share program was first announced back in 2013, Decatur was thinking about collaborating with Atlanta on the transportation project.   However, we learned last March that Decatur dropped plans to operate a similar bike share in conjunction with Atlanta due to its expense.

More info on Atlanta’s bike share program HERE.

You may recall the Atlanta-Decatur Bike Share Feasibility Study that was released in January 2013, which got folks buzzing about a bike share program that stretched across Atlanta and into downtown Decatur.  Don’t recall?  You can still pour over it’s PDFed pages HERE.

All caught up?  You also may have heard just a month or so ago, that Atlanta was moving forward with the purchase of 500 bikes that will be installed at 57 locations around the city.

“So what about Decatur?”, Peter recently asked us.

City Planning Director Amanda Thompson tells DM that Decatur is not involved in Atlanta’s bike share at this point and doesn’t have plans of participating in the next fiscal year.  Says Ms. Thompson, “It is still quite expensive to operate and we would need to identify a source of funding.”

Graphic courtesy of AtlantaBicycleShare.com