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Bike Share Has Slow Start, But Hopes Are High For Fall

WUTC | By Mary Helen Miller
Published August 15, 2012 at 11:33 AM EDT
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Bikes are parked at the Oak Street station at UTC.

About three weeks since opening to the public, the Chattanooga Bicycle Transit System has about 200 annual members. WUTC checks in with a couple of bike share members who already use the service regularly and Outdoor Chattanooga's bicycle coordinator.
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Mary Helen Miller
Mary Helen Miller was a producer for Around and About from 2012 to 2013. She now works at the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.
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