Getting AroundSaturday, November 7
🚲Drifters City Bike Share launches in St. Augustine with 90 bicycles
6The Daily St. Augustine teamFrom today’s edition · 1 min read · 3 sources
If you've wanted another way to get around town, Drifters City Bike Share is set to connect downtown, West King Street and the beaches in America's oldest city. It launched with a ribbon-cutting Friday after three years of planning.
Drifters City Bike Share launched with 90 bicycles
- 90
- bicycles at launch
- 14
- tower stations
- 62
- single-docking stations at participating businesses
- 170
- docking stations the system is designed to support
Source: Action News Jax
Ian Guthrie, owner of Drifters Beach and Bike Rentals, developed the program to help riders get around and steer customers to neighborhood merchants. He chose a custom design over the heavy look of big-city systems. “We want to keep it clean, classic and simple, but also very tough and dependable,” Guthrie said.
- Where: Downtown, West King, Anastasia Island and St. Augustine Beach
- Pay: through the program's mobile app
- Pedal-assisted bikes: 10, governed to 15 mph
10 of the 90 launch bikes are pedal-assisted
10 of 90
- pedal-assisted
- 80 other bikes
Source: Action News Jax
View as table
| Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| pedal-assisted | 10 | 11% |
| other bikes | 80 | 89% |
The city's program runs through local company Drifters Inc. For New York visitor Chris Cates, that's the point: “this is a city that really requires bike riding; it’s really difficult to get around,” he said.
Sources: Action News Jax, Jacksonville Daily Record, News4JAX