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The Boston bike-share success story

By Tom Keane

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  November 26, 2011

The Hubway - Boston’s bicycle share program first blush seemed one of those off-the-wall, goofy larks you’d find in cities like Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco. The notion that meat-and-potatoes Tom Menino was behind it made me wonder whether those 18 years as Boston mayor had finally exacted their toll, especially when he started prattling on about this being the beginning of a new, green urban transportation system. But now the bikes are heading inside for the winter and, taking stock of the last four months, the Hubway is starting to look less hare-brained and more like one of Menino’s best ideas eve Hubway

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