San Mateo Local needed some other factor this morning toward implementing a bicycle share program that should connect Caltrain commuters to bike kiosks at stations in five cities.

The particular San Mateo County Snowboard for Executives today dicated to join a partnership of local agencies playing the Regional Bicycle Share Pilot Project, that is administered by the S . fransisco Air Quality Management District.

This course aims to place about 1,000 bikes in additional than 100 kiosks along Caltrain’s Peninsula corridor, air district spokesman Aaron Richardson said.

“The idea is that often a great way these bikes may be most valuable will be as commute extenders,” Richardson said.

Caltrain commuters could very well simply deboard Caltrain, have a look at a bicycle collected from one of of the kiosks and ride to work or perhaps a final destination, the place that the bike can be left in one other nearby kiosk, Richardson stated. Your aviator program will establish bike kiosks in San francisco bay area, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto and San Jose.

On the list of agencies which may have consented to play in the pilot program include the San fran Municipal Transportation Agency, the San Mateo County Transportation District, the town of Redwood City as well as the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

By just becoming a member of the partnership, San Mateo County has decided provide staff in promoting this course locally and designate sites on county-owned properties as possible locations for bike kiosks.

“Bike sharing is undoubtedly an innovative technique to improve our community’s health insurance and quality of air by swapping simple truck trips with zero-emission bikes,” Air District executive director Jack Broadbent said within a statement.

The pilot program has been funded by $4.29 million in scholarhip funds awarded to your air district through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Richardson said.

The atmosphere district hopes to get the pilot program up and running during the warm months of 2012, Richardson said.