{"id":9365,"date":"2018-11-23T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:37:08","slug":"los-fresnos-to-join-bikeshare-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9365","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos to Join BikeShare Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9375\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9375\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3048.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3048-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3048-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3048-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bike like this one will be for rent under BikeShare program. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bicycle share (rental) program is getting ready to be launched in the Rio Grande Valley and the City of Los Fresnos has made its intention to be a part of the project that is about to roll out.<\/p>\n<p>During its last two meetings, the council approved two readings of Ordinance 497 which calls for establishing fees and regulations for a \u201cDockless Vehicle\u201d permit program.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Mark Milum said the Rio Grande Valley Development Council has been working on the project for a while.<\/p>\n<p>He said the idea behind it is to provide a means of affordable transportation to Valley residents.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a program some cities have where people can rent a bike from a rack using a credit card and which has come its end, the BikeShare program operates differently.<\/p>\n<p>Users pay $1 to unlock the scooter and are charged 13 cents a minute after that.<\/p>\n<p>All pricing information is shown in the smartphone app., or on a Web site.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference was scheduled to take place earlier this month at the Weslaco-based LRGVDC to outline details of the BikeShare RGV, but it was postponed until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN A bicycle share (rental) program is getting ready to be launched in the Rio Grande Valley and the City of Los Fresnos has made its intention to be a part of the project that is about to roll out. During its last two meetings, the council approved two readings of Ordinance 497 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}