New Bike Share Stations Planned Throughout Bay Area

BAY AREA, CA – Proposed phase two locations of the long-awaited Bay Area Bike Share expansion were revealed Thursday as the company prepares to finally begin adding new stations to the system for the first time in nearly four years.

Locations for the first phase of the expansion, expected to begin in 2017, were announced earlier this year.

Motivate, the company now overseeing the bike share program, plans to bring bike sharing to the East
Bay for the first time as well as expanding the existing network in San Francisco and San Jose.

Phases two and three of the expansion are slated to continue through the end of 2018.

In the second phase, San Francisco will receive 50 new stations, mainly in the South of Market and Western Addition neighborhoods. Bike share stations will reach the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for the first time.

The East Bay will get 28 more stations in phase two, with several to be added to the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Merritt. In addition, the program's reach will be widened in the areas around the Berkeley and downtown Oakland BART stations.

Those stations will be added to a network of 34 stations slated to be built during the first phase.

Fifteen more stations will be added to San Jose in phase two, further widening the program's reach beyond the current downtown core.

As the expansion gets underway, the bike sharing program will be rebranded as "Ford GoBike" as part of a sponsorship deal with Ford announced earlier this month. Because of the sponsorship, the bike sharing program should be able to operate without any tax funding -- a model that has already proven successful in other urban areas.

Once the expansion is complete, the currently 700-bike program is slated to have 4,500 bikes in San Francisco, 800 in Oakland, 400 in Berkeley, 100 in Emeryville and 1,000 in San Jose.

Workshops to pick the locations for the third phase of the expansion are scheduled in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley in the next few weeks.

To see maps by region, click on one of the following links.

San Francisco (PDF)
East Bay (PDF)
San Jose (PDF)

More information is available at bayareabikeshare.com/expansion.

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