Cleveland Gets Cheap Bike-Share With Unusual Funding Deal

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The other day, Cleveland unveiled a brand-new public bike-share system. It isn't the kind you might be familiar with from New York or Chicago or Denver: There are no bulky docks and no solar-powered payment kiosks, and the bikes look like any regular city bikes.

But that isn't really what's different about the system, provided by a company called Zagster. The thing that makes Cleveland's new bike-share unusual is that it is the first public bike-share in the United States that is not only completely privately funded, but was also initiated by the private sector.

The Cleveland system isn't big, consisting of only 34 bikes and six stations to start.

Full article: http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/bike-share-cost-cleveland-funding-zagster