The Topeka Metro Bikes program will be discontinued effective July 30. The board of directors of the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority voted 7-0 Monday afternoon to make that move. The TMTA board last June had approved cuts that included discontinuing Topeka Metro Bikes effective last December. But board members voted last October to give Topeka Metro Bikes an extension through June 30, which will be Tuesday. On Monday, Topeka Metro general manager Bob Nugent told TMTA board members that a company with which Topeka Metro had been working to provide the bicycle sharing program had pulled out on short notice. Nugent said he subsequently spent “quite a bit of time over about a month” unsuccessfully looking for alternatives.
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