The regional Bay Area Bike Share program is expanding into the Mission District, SoMa, and Castro, bringing 72 new locations city-wide, the Chronicle reports.
Many of the 33 new bike-sharing stations in the Mission District will be on Valencia Street, which will see seven on-street stations. Mission Street will only see three new stations, with an off-street station at each of the BART Plazas as well. The rest are spread out throughout the neighborhood, with many of the others on Folsom, Harrison, and Bryant.
From the Chronicle:
San Francisco’s small but robust bike-sharing system is getting ready to spread into the Mission, move deeper into South of Market and roll into the Duboce Triangle as the first part of a massive expansion of the regional Bay Area Bike Share program.
After months of meetings and surveys, Motivate, the firm that operates the system for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, on Tuesday announced 72 tentative locations for new bike-sharing stations in San Francisco.
The city is the heart of Bay Area Bike Share, which has 700 bikes in San Francisco, San Jose, Redwood City, Palo Alto and Mountain View. Most of those bikes are in San Francisco, almost entirely in the city’s central core: the Financial District, Union Square and Civic Center.
Under the proposed expansion, six dozen new stations — and about 700 to 1,000 more bikes — will arrive, probably near the end of this year. San Jose will also see an expansion with 13 additional locations and about 150 more bikes. The program will move into the East Bay near the end of the year.