Leave it to the CESS POOL City Council to bail out a BK program and expect the tax payers not only to buy it ........ but throw millions more into it.
So glad I don't live there anymore but when will people wake up?
When is it enough?
People running a REAL business using their OWN money would NEVER keep throwing money into a business idea that the numbers not only don't work ....... they will NEVER work!!!
Seattle City Council votes to keep Pronto wheels moving
Seattle City Council on Monday voted 7-2 to save the struggling bike sharing program known as Pronto.
Chris Daniels and KING 5 News, KING5.com
6:34 p.m. PDT March 14, 2016
SEATTLE - The Seattle City Council will keep the wheels on the bikes moving round and round.
On Monday, the Council voted 7-2 to bailout out the beleaguered bike share service and pay $1.4 million to buy the assets. It will be a publicly run organization and there could be millions more for expansion.
It came after a last minute attempt, by council members Tim Burgess and Lisa Herbold, to kill the subsidy and pursue a public-private partnership. Their amendment was rejected.
Council member Mike O'Brien, who chairs the council transportation committee, was the biggest backer of continuing bike share.
"Biking in general can be and needs to be an integral part of our transportation network, and a bike share network can be a great part of our transportation network,” O’Brien said after the vote.
O’Brien says the new system will be strictly monitored, and will involve monthly updates from SDOT.
The ordinance also prevents SDOT Director Scott Kubly, who has ties to a former bike service contractor, from making the decision about any future bike business partner.
O'Brien says he now hopes to talk about expansion of the service in early 2017 outside of the downtown core, "that gives us an opportunity to expand the geography and ways for people to use this system."
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