Renee Rivera of Bike East Bay, shown at the microphone, with MTC Chair and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Dave Cortese to her left, MTC Commissioner Scott Wiener behind her and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo to her right
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“I can’t wait to bring the benefits of bike sharing to Oakland to serve neighborhoods and residents from our downtown corridor to East and West Oakland,” MTC Commissioner and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (center of photo) said in a prepared statement.
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MTC Commissioner and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo takes the podium, flanked by Berkeley Mayor and MTC Commissioner Tom Bates (to left of Liccardo) and Motivate President and CEO Jay Walder applauds (to right).
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“This is going to be really transformational for the entire region,” said MTC Commissioner and S.F. Supervisor Scott Wiener, shown at the microphone.
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The augmented program would continue bike sharing in the current participating cities of San Jose and San Francisco while also for the first time bringing bike sharing across the Bay into the East Bay cities of Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland. The agreement with the private provider, Motivate, also allows for future expansion beyond these five cities.
The expansion plan would increase the current fleet of 700 bikes to 7,000, making this the second largest bike share program in the nation.