UPDATE: MoGo has also received a $35,000 grant from the Better Bike Share Partnership to work with the cities of Detroit and Ferndale and the Live6 Alliance. According to an announcement, the grant is to help engage neighborhood ambassadors and community organizers to build support for expanding the bike-sharing program beyond downtown Detroit.
Ferndale could be in line for an expanded MoGo bike share program in 2019 that could also spread to five other inner-ring suburbs, plus the nearby Avenue of Fashion on Livernois Avenue in Detroit.
The City Council voted Monday to apply for a federal 2019 Transportation Alternatives Program grant along with MoGo that would cover the regional bike share expansion, plus a separate Ferndale-only project to add bike lanes, pedestrian crossings and other amenities to Woodward Heights as part of a resurfacing already planned for 2019.
MoGo is the bike share program launched by the Downtown Detroit Partnership in spring 2017, with a coverage area that stretches from downtown to the New Center and North End, west to Mexicantown and east to West Village. In addition to Ferndale, the cities of Oak Park, Berkley, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak and Madison Heights are exploring whether to take part in the expansion project.
Royal Oak’s city commission on Monday approved a letter of support for the TAP application and moving forward with exploring the partnership, said James Krizan, assistant to the city manager. The Huntington Woods City Commission has also approved a letter of support for the grant application but has not decided whether the city wants in, The Woodward Talk reports.
MoGo’s executive director, Lisa Nuszkowski, told us on a Daily Detroit Happy Hour podcast episode last summer that MoGo was looking at possible expansion plans involving other cities. She said it’s too early to say where MoGo stations might be located in an expansion.
Ferndale is exploring having two bike-share kiosk stations with payment machines, 15 docking points and seven bikes each, plus five satellite stations with seven docking points and three bikes each for a total of 65 docking points. The city estimates its local-funds match would be $45,000, while annual operations and maintenance would be covered by sponsorship and rider fees.
The $218,200 resurfacing project on Woodward Heights would cover work between Bermuda and Pilgrim streets including new curbs, protected pedestrian and bike crossings, new sidewalks and 30 new trees, plus adding curbside bike lanes east of Hilton.
Applications are due to SEMCOG by March 7 for projects constructed in 2019, with grants awarded this summer.
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