SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- Electric bicycles are coming to San Francisco and Berkeley next year as part of a bike-sharing pilot program approved by transportation officials Tuesday.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors gave the go-ahead for a $1.5 million grant toward an electric bike-share program that will partner with City CarShare and the UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center.
City CarShare is a Bay Area nonprofit member-based car-sharing organization that serves San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and other East Bay cities.
In San Francisco $740,000 will be diverted to the program, which will offer electric bicycles to City CarShare members at 20 stations in San Francisco and Berkeley.
The other portion of the money will be used in Berkeley, where the research group will monitor usage of the alternative travel option during the pilot that will end in 2018.