Thanks to a Federal Transportation Alternatives Program grant and a match from the City of Milwaukee totaling $4.15 million, Bublr Bikes will expand its bikeshare network.
The money – the largest investment in the system since it launched in 2014 – will allow Bublr to double the number of stations over the next year.
There are currently more than 100 bike rental stations in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and West Allis.
You can see the locations of the existing and future stations on this map. Yard signs will be placed around the city in coming weeks to identify general locations of future Bublr stations.
According to Bublr, 80 percent of Bublr stations are co-located with MCTS stops and the new sites will continue this co-location to help close last-mile transportation gaps.
The grant money will also fund 500 more e-bikes this summer and 800 new docks.
“This investment of federal and local funds will increase access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable transportation options throughout the city,” said Laura Bolger, Bublr Bikes executive director. “Bublr has worked with the City of Milwaukee to determine the locations of these new stations, strategically identifying areas that will help us to connect communities through biking.
"Successful Bikeshare networks are designed so riders are never more than 2-3 blocks away from the nearest station. This expansion moves Bublr in that direction and keeps Milwaukee’s bikeshare as one of the best in the country.”
Residents can complete a Bublr 2.0 feedback survey found on the
City’s Engage MKE site. Completing the survey will get you a discount code for an annual membership.
“Bikeshare is a great option for residents and visitors in Milwaukee, and I am so pleased Bublr is growing with this grant,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson said. “Increasingly, our city has wonderful transportation choices. Bublr Bikes is one of the best examples of that.”
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
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