Politics & Government
Decatur Commission To Discuss Bike Sharing
The Decatur City Commission will hold a work session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, then hold the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m.
The Decatur City Commission will talk about a bike share feasability study during a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday work session.
The city has taken steps to encourage cycling, such as creating bike lanes and painting sharrows on streets. Decatur was designated a bike-friendly community in October by the League of American Bicyclists.
Bike sharing, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, is "a membership-based system of short-term bicycle rental. Members can check a bicycle out from a network of automated bicycle stations, ride to their destination, and return the bicycle to a different station."
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Locally, a bike share programs can be found on Georgia Tech’s campus, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Many European cities as well as Charlotte, Chattanooga, Miami Beach, New York, and Washington, D.C., have bike-share programs.
The commission will hold a dinner meeting at 5:30 p.m., the work session at 6:30 p.m. and the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are held in city hall and are open to the public.
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To see the full agenda for the meeting, go to the City of Decatur website.
Residents can watch the 7:30 p.m. meeting on live streaming video on their home computers by going to the city website.
The commission meetings will still be rebroadcast on Comcast channel 25 at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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