AgdaPkt 2016-05-23 Closed, Joint SA and PFA

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6.1.D. - Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager May 23, 2016 SUBJECT Bay Area Bike Share Program Update RECOMMENDATION 1. Receive Bay Area Bike Share program information update 2. Direct staff to work with other peninsula cities to develop a bike share program that may be launched by the end of 2018, and to return to the City Council with an update in Spring 2017 BACKGROUND Bay Area Bike Share is a grant-funded regional pilot project that launched on August 29, 2013 in five Bay Area cities: Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Francisco, and San Jose. Bay Area Motivate, LLC (Motivate) is the current operator of this bike share system. Motivate submitted an unsolicited bid to MTC to expand Bay Area Bike Share to the East Bay in Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland, and to continue and expand bike share in San Francisco and San Jose at no cost to any of those cities. Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Redwood City were not included in Motivate's expansion/continuation proposal, but were offered the opportunity to buy in to the system at their own cost. The grant-funded pilot program is scheduled to end in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Redwood City on June 30, 2016. In fall 2015 staff members from Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City, SamTrans, and VTA (collectively the "Peninsula Partners") formed a collaborative working group to evaluate bike share on the peninsula. The Peninsula Partners and representatives from MTC have met regularly over the past several months to review various options and costs associated with a peninsula bike share system. These combined efforts are led by SamTrans, who worked with Toole Design Group to facilitate a decision-making process for the Peninsula Partners. The team has reached a point where each peninsula city will decide whether to continue with and pay for the current bike share system operated by Motivate (either for the short or long term), to transition to a different bike share system, or to discontinue bike share (any system). By May 31, 2016 the cities must let Motivate know whether they will opt in or opt out of the Motivate system.