The next time you rent a bike to cruise through Wichita, you’ll probably be renting it from city government.
City Hall has agreed to a friendly takeover of Bike Share ICT, shifting the curbside bike rental program from the nonprofit management that started it to more of a partnership between government and the private sector.
The program had been run by Becky Tuttle at the Greater Wichita YMCA. But Tuttle resigned from the Y in January when she was appointed to the City Council.
Now, Bike Share ICT is following her to city government.
“We realized through what’s going on in the community that right now we’re really rethinking how we approach multi-modal forms of transportation,” Tuttle said. “So we’re working with transit, we’re thinking about walkability, we’re thinking about bikeability, we’re thinking about scooters and all these different aspects of transportation.
“So it was just a really timely and unique opportunity to move Bike Share ICT under the city of Wichita Transit Department, with people who are really experts in this type of work.”
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