Adding a Downtown bike-sharing program isn’t one of the items on my Top 10 list (#7 coming soon), but it could be. As I learned today in Joel Warner’s blog post at Westword, this summer Denver will launch a bike sharing program similar to what we saw during the DNC last summer, which filled Denver’s Downtown streets with bicycles and, along with the mass of pedestrians, gave us a peek into Downtown Denver’s potential future where the automobile does not reign supreme. Known as B-Cycle, the program will bring 500 or so bikes to 30 bike stations scattered around Downtown. Read Joel’s blog for all the details.

What a great way to promote alternative transportation in Downtown and to give people another option for getting out of their cars! Along with our growing transit system and planned pedestrian and bike lane improvements, we’re slowing turning the ship from its 50-year course of giving the automobile priority in our built environment. More good news for Downtown Denver.