Goodbye Hubway Green: New Bikes To Roll Out Soon

BOSTON, MA — The green Hubway bikes that you've come to know start that serious makeover we mentioned before very soon. Patch previously reported that new bikes would be headed our way this Spring courtesy a partnership with Blue Cross.

Previously on Patch>> Hubway Expands And Gets New Partnership

The new Blue Bikes will be hitting the streets of Boston, Cambridge, Brookline and Somerville, as part of the Metro Boston public bike share system’s new partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The six-year agreement between Blue Cross and the Hubway system includes a plan to expand the bike share in the four municipalities.

As part of the sponsorship, the existing system is being rebranded as Blue Bikes, reflecting Blue Cross’s support for the bike share system, which will continue to be a municipally-owned, public transportation system and to be operated by Motivate International, Inc. By the end of 2019, there will be 3,000 Blue Bikes on the streets — up from the 1,800 that exist today — and more than 100 new stations throughout the four municipalities, according to the folks at Hubway er Blue Bikes and Motivate.

Stay tuned for more this week on this.

Previously on Patch:

Boston Metro Hubway Expands Income-Eligibility For Bike Share

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