Bike Share Hearing Today At City Council

After dealing with a bomb threat at the Bicycle Coalition offices yesterday, today bike lovers will ride into City Council to explain why a bike share program is a cool idea. (City Council, naturally, had to pass a resolution to hold this hearing.)

Riders would pay a variety of fees (daily, weekly, yearly, etc.) to ride a bike; riders could even take one-way trips from bike station to bike station, which is pretty neat. Bike Share Philadelphia wants to start with 1,000 bikes, hopefully old Huffy White Heats.

And everybody loves the idea, except for maybe whoever called in a bomb threat. “This would provide a welcome addition to our public transit options here in the City,” SEPTA Watch writes. The hearing’s on the fourth floor of City Hall at 2.