Letters: Bike Share Philadelphia plans a bike-sharing demonstration for city residents

MICHAEL Smerconish said, "I've seen Philadelphia's future, and it's balancing on two wheels." We at Bike Share Philadelphia hope that not only is he prescient, but right on the money!

Almost everyone who sees a bike-sharing program in operation, as Smerconish did a few weeks ago in London (even without trying it out), gets it and wants it for Philadelphia.

Bike-sharing systems are transformational in easily getting people around an automobile-congested city. It can be faster and less expensive to use bike sharing for quick trips than to drive and park a car or use conventional public transportation. Plus, as a bonus, it gives citizens the benefit of getting physically fit while doing everyday chores!

Although Bike Share Philadelphia would like to send all of the Daily News readers to London to see this for themselves, being fiscally responsible, we are bringing a three-day bike-sharing system demonstration to Philadelphia this week:

_ Today at 36th and Walnut streets, University City, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in front of the Penn Bookstore, in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania.

_ Tomorrow at JFK Plaza (LOVE Park), 15th and JFK Boulevard, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in cooperation with the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities.

_ Saturday at Penn's Landing on the Walnut Plaza, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in cooperation with the Delaware River Waterfront Corp.

Come join us for a ride!

Russell Meddin

Bike Share Philadelphia

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