Boulder Valley munis awarded $1.5M for e-bike share program

DENVER — The Colorado Energy Office has awarded a $1.5 million grant to local governments in Superior, Broomfield, Westminster, Lafayette, Longmont and Boulder County to help fund the launch of an electric bicycle sharing program. 

Commuting Solutions, a Boulder-headquartered organization that helps improve and expand transportation options in the northwest Denver metropolitan area, partnered with the counties and municipalities to submit the Community Accelerated Mobility Project grant application.

“The three-year grant will provide several communities with the opportunity to launch a local electric bike share system while collaborating on its regional implementation,” Commuting Solutions said in a news release. “It will provide initial funding for the capital and operations costs, as well as support public outreach and education efforts to activate utilization of the new system, especially focusing on community members with fewer transportation options.”

The partners plan to make a request for proposals for e-bike vendors.

“Through our regional planning efforts over the past 10 years to expand multimodal transportation options, we have envisioned regional bike share as an important tool to connect the public safely and easily to the corridor bikeways and Bus Rapid Transit systems,” Commuting Solutions executive director Audrey DeBarros said in the release.

Commuting Solutions focuses on delivering transportation options that connect commuters to their workplaces, businesses to their employees and residents to their communities through advocacy for infrastructure and transportation improvements, partnerships and education.

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