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Woodinville council hears Lime pitch for two-summer micromobility pilot
Summary
Lime told the Woodinville City Council on April 15 it could operate a two-summer pilot of shared bikes and scooters with a hybrid parking system, rapid zone updates, and a 70% low-income discount; council members pressed the company on parking, safety and underage use and scheduled community engagement.
Hayden Harvey, director of government affairs at Lime, told the Woodinville City Council on April 15 that Lime could deploy shared bikes and scooters in Woodinville under a two-summer pilot and leave cities broad authority to define parking and operational zones.
Harvey said Lime operates at global scale and in the Puget Sound region and described the company’s technology and rules. “We deploy roughly 310,000 vehicles across 5 continents in 280 cities every day,” he said, and he described a bike battery range of about 30 to 40 miles and an expected multi-year service life for bikes.
The company outlined a hybrid parking model: a free-floating system across most of the city, with mandatory parking pins or corrals in sensitive, high-traffic areas. Harvey explained several zone…
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