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High-Tech Bike Sharing Makes Its U.S. Debut–in D.C.

August 18, 2008

Yup, right here in D.C. I’m so proud.

“Declare the District’s urban-cool inferiority complex officially over,” the WaPo reported on Aug. 13, the day SmartBike D.C. went live. “Today the city joins the ranks of Paris and Barcelona with the launch of the first high-tech public bike-sharing program in the United States, forcing such cities as San Francisco and Chicago to look here to see chic alternative transportation in action in America.

I walk by a SmartBike stand on my way to work and it looks pretty cool–Zipcar for cyclists.

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