{"id":35150,"date":"2018-06-08T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home\/dockless-in-seattle\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T19:52:00","slug":"dockless-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/dockless-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Dockless in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In summer 2017, thousands of brightly-hued bikes started covering Seattle streets. Unlike Seattle&rsquo;s previous bikeshare program, Pronto, which required users to return the bike to a designated parking station, these don&rsquo;t have a station. You unlock the bike with your smartphone, then leave it at your destination. It&rsquo;s more convenient, so the program has been seeing a lot more use and overall enthusiasm than Pronto ever did. But all that freedom sometimes leads to&#8230; well, chaos. The bikes have been hung off of bridges, stop signs, and trees; they&rsquo;ve been drowned in lakes, thrown in bushes, and holed up in people&rsquo;s houses; they&rsquo;ve been tossed in piles and mangled and tagged. This week, as Seattle releases its initial evaluation of a year with dockless bikeshare, Seattleland intern Aidan Walker takes stock of all that vandalism and mayhem&mdash;and explores what bike companies and city staffers are doing to stem the tide of careless parkers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/5nfj3-92ce7e?from=site&#038;skin=1&#038;share=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Music by <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Ask%20Again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Again<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Kevin_MacLeod\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin MacLeod<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jahzzar.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jahzarr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/promqueenmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leeni Ramadan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This week&rsquo;s cover photo is an image of a remarkably orderly line of Ofo bikes, taken by Aidan Walker.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year since a new kind of bikeshare was launched in Seattle, the bikes have been found in many interesting spots. But is there a place for them in the region&rsquo;s future? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":35151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[33],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northwest","tag-seattleland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}