Placemakers   /     Building a Better Bike Share

Description

Philadelphia has made a mission of making bike share attractive to low-income and minority residents, trying to buck the national trend of bike-share usersbeing white, rich, educated, and male. The city has moved bike stations intononwhite neighborhoods. It’s used ambassadors. It’s hired a multiracial team to runthe bike-share program. And it’s tried and abandoned other ideas, in an attempt tobreak the social stigma of riding a bike in poor neighborhoods.

Subtitle
Philadelphia wanted its bike share program to succeed where other bike shares have failed: in winning over low-income and minority residents. Turns out it’s working.
Duration
1537
Publishing date
2016-10-17 05:00
Contributors
  Slate Magazine / Panoply
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Enclosures
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