Denver B-cycle - Denver, CO
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N 39° 44.421 W 104° 59.421
13S E 500826 N 4398939
This Bike sharing/ rental station is located in front of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building at 201 W. Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80202
Waymark Code: WMBD7A
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 05/08/2011
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The Denver Bike Sharing program began in 2007 in preparation for the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
From the Program's website (
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" Mayor John W. Hickenlooper’s challenge to make the 2008 Convention the “greenest in the history of mankind,” a group of local sustainability advocates met to brainstorm how to rise to that challenge. A member of that group from the Governor’s Energy office offered “Hmm, I think I know someone who can help us find bikes to help our guests get around.” One thing led to another, resulting in connections to Bikes Belong and Humana Health. Within weeks, Humana and Bikes Belong committed to donate 1,000 bicycles and countless man hours of program development to Denver’s Greening Initiative. They made the same offer to the Republican National Convention. Fast forward to late summer 2008, past a year of cooperative, hard work by a team of local bike advocates, transportation planners, Host Committee staff, Greenprint Denver, and Department of Public Works staff, Bikes Belong, and Humana. The 1,000 bikes made up a short-term bike sharing program, Freewheelin’. The Freewheelin’ bikes were used throughout the City, with participants logging 5,552 rides totaling 26,463 miles, burning an estimated 818,899 calories and preventing approximately 9.3 metric tons of carbon."
When Mayor Hickenlooper ran for Governor (successfully) in 2010, the Tea Party candidate claimed the program was a socialist effort to make Denver a United Nations community. See (
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