Last week, Baltimore resident Brian Seel posted a story on Medium chronicling his one-man survey of the city’s bike-share system, which opened last October with a 20-station, 200-bike system. Seel toured every station in the city on Labor Day. He found only 4 working bikes, despite the system’s phone app assertion to the contrary.
As it turns out, the city’s Department of Transportation had quietly begun to take the bikes of service for a temporary system-wide shutdown it announced the next day. The DOT pledged to reopen the bike share by October 15.
