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1 Provide a bicycle accommodation, a pick-up/drop-off rack, within a half-mile of every Chicago resident.

2 Provide a greater number of bikeways near residential areas.

3 Increase the amount of bicycling infrastructure where ridership is high, and establish infrastructure where ridership is lower, but has the potential to grow.

How cities care for bike-share programs can extend to other sharing programs we have today or those that are yet to be developed. The first scooter-sharing program launched in San Francisco in 2012, and today they can be found throughout the US. The world’s largest ones are in Berlin, Germany, Madrid, and Paris. A report from the National Association of City Transportation Officials noted that riders took 38.5 million trips on shared electric scooters in 2018, eclipsing the 36.5 million trips on shared, docked bicycles (three million trips were on dockless bicycles).32 Scooter-sharing programs are dockless and allow users to pick up and drop off a scooter at any safe place on a public street within the city’s service area. Like bikes, scooters release far fewer carbon emissions than automobiles.33 It’s unclear what ride-share programs will exist in the future, but we need to guarantee they’ll be safe and environmentally friendly.