The capital line project includes a bike path on 4th st downtown. I think there's already been separate public meetings for that

City’s Longest Protected Bike Lane Planned for North 4th Street

 

Changes are coming to North Fourth Street in Italian Village, Weinland Park and Old North Columbus.

 

Currently, the street has an unprotected bike lane that stretches from Warren Street to Hudson Street, with on-street parking along each curb. A new plan calls for the bike lane to switch places with the parking lane on the west side of the street, creating a bike lane that is physically protected from car traffic along the entire 2.5-mile corridor.

 

City officials held an open house last night to answer questions and provide information about the Fourth Street project, as well as plans to reconfigure a shorter stretch of Fifth Avenue.

 

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/citys-longest-protected-bike-lane-planned-for-north-4th-street-bw1/

 

CoGo Bike Share Ending Service This Month

 

After eleven and a half years of operation, the city’s first major bike share program is coming to a close. It was announced in December that the City of Columbus would be transitioning to a new contracted mobility service provider in 2025, which means the winding down of the CoGo Bike Share system.

 

“The City of Columbus is transitioning away from CoGo Bike Share to a new, unified, dockless, shared mobility program that will launch this spring,” explained a customer service email that went out this morning from CoGo. “As part of the transition to a new program, CoGo operations will end on February 28, 2025.”

 

CoGo originally launched in the summer of 2013, with a limited number of bike docking stations and standard bikes. Over the past decade, the service footprint has expanded with new stations and the addition of eBikes into the rentable fleet. In 2018, CoGo was acquired by rideshare corporation Lyft, which reported its first profitable quarter last year.

 

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/cogo-bike-share-ending-service-this-month-we1/

 

Wow, Lyft turned a profit.

On 2/12/2025 at 3:55 PM, ColDayMan said:

City’s Longest Protected Bike Lane Planned for North 4th Street

 

Changes are coming to North Fourth Street in Italian Village, Weinland Park and Old North Columbus.

 

Currently, the street has an unprotected bike lane that stretches from Warren Street to Hudson Street, with on-street parking along each curb. A new plan calls for the bike lane to switch places with the parking lane on the west side of the street, creating a bike lane that is physically protected from car traffic along the entire 2.5-mile corridor.

 

City officials held an open house last night to answer questions and provide information about the Fourth Street project, as well as plans to reconfigure a shorter stretch of Fifth Avenue.

 

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/citys-longest-protected-bike-lane-planned-for-north-4th-street-bw1/

 

Can they at least add some bollards to the buffer zone? Cars WILL park in the bike lane. 

New Vendor to Launch Soon, But Spin Scooters to Remain on Streets After Lawsuit

 

The city’s plan to replace CoGo bikes and the three companies permitted to operate scooters in Columbus with a single vendor is not moving forward exactly as originally envisioned.

 

Veo Micromobility will launch operations on March 15, bringing its fleet of scooters, bikes and other small vehicles to Columbus under a new contract with the city. CoGo has already ended service in the city, and Bird and Lime scooters will stop providing scooters by the time Veo is up and running, as previously planned. However, Spin scooters will remain in Columbus and will continue to be available to rent.

 

That’s because Spin filed suit in December against the city’s Department of Public Service in U.S District Court, alleging that the city failed to follow its own stated evaluation criteria in awarding Veo an exclusive micromobility contract. City officials said that the new arrangement, in which Veo and Spin will both operate here through at least the remainder of 2025, is part of a negotiated settlement agreement between the city and Spin.

 

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/new-vendor-to-launch-soon-but-spin-scooters-to-remain-on-streets-after-lawsuit-bw1/

 

 

Columbus rolls out new Veo rental scooters this weekend 

 

Starting today, Veo's bikes and electric scooters — including seated scooters — will be available to rent in Columbus. The new partnership with the city of Columbus replaces Lyft's CoGo bikes (which were removed last month). The city is also reducing the number of scooter options in the city: it allowed permits to lapse for Bird and Lime at the end of 2024.

 

Veo will eventually offer standing scooters, seated scooters, pedal-assist e-bikes, pedal bikes and two-seated e-bikes. They will start with 500 vehicles across the city and are capped at 2,000.

 

Addressing the problem of abandoned scooters blocking sidewalks or handicap curb ramps was a top priority in negotiating these contracts with Veo and Spin.

The city is working with Veo and Spin so their apps guide riders to park their devices in appropriate locations like bike racks, scooter corrals or areas of sidewalk where there is room.

 

The city intends to invest its profits from the rides into expanding the parking infrastructure for bikes and scooters around the city.

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/03/15/veo-rentable-e-scooters-e-bikes-roll-out-in-columbus-this-weekend/82365009007/

 

 

44 minutes ago, Luvcbus said:

 

Columbus rolls out new Veo rental scooters this weekend 

 

Starting today, Veo's bikes and electric scooters — including seated scooters — will be available to rent in Columbus. The new partnership with the city of Columbus replaces Lyft's CoGo bikes (which were removed last month). The city is also reducing the number of scooter options in the city: it allowed permits to lapse for Bird and Lime at the end of 2024.

 

Veo will eventually offer standing scooters, seated scooters, pedal-assist e-bikes, pedal bikes and two-seated e-bikes. They will start with 500 vehicles across the city and are capped at 2,000.

 

Addressing the problem of abandoned scooters blocking sidewalks or handicap curb ramps was a top priority in negotiating these contracts with Veo and Spin.

The city is working with Veo and Spin so their apps guide riders to park their devices in appropriate locations like bike racks, scooter corrals or areas of sidewalk where there is room.

 

The city intends to invest its profits from the rides into expanding the parking infrastructure for bikes and scooters around the city.

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/03/15/veo-rentable-e-scooters-e-bikes-roll-out-in-columbus-this-weekend/82365009007/

 

 

Some of these aren't horrible, but if that stupid Astro one pops up I'm going to lose it. Those things are a nuisance and nothing less.

I was in a presentation by Veo this week and the wider variety of vehicles targets more demographics. The footboard scooters (Astro here) in the past were most popular with males in their 20s and early 30s whereas other demos perfer something else. As they gather more data on what's popular here now that there are more choices the product distribution percentage can change from the previous mix of stand up scooters, traditional bikes and e-bikes.

Edited March 15Mar 15 by GCrites

52 minutes ago, GCrites said:

I was in a presentation by Veo this week and the wider variety of vehicles targets more demographics. The footboard scooters (Astro here) in the past were most popular with males in their 20s and early 30s whereas other demos perfer something else. As they gather more data on what's popular here now that there are more choices the product distribution percentage can change from the previous mix of stand up scooters, traditional bikes and e-bikes.

Did they mention price differences between all the options? 

Yes the pedal bike is by far the cheapest at $0.50 and hour (or 1/2 hour, trying to remember) whereas the other options range from $0.39 a minute up to about $0.50 a minute.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by GCrites

1 hour ago, GCrites said:

Yes the pedal bike is by far the cheapest at $0.50 and hour (or 1/2 hour, trying to remember) whereas the other options range from $0.39 a minute up to about $1 a minute.

So unlike CoGo, there will be no metal rack to lock the bikes/scooters in place? What is going to keep people from just dropping them off wherever they want. That was a huge problem in the city with the scooters laying down right in the middle of the sidewalk. 

28 minutes ago, sono4315 said:

So unlike CoGo, there will be no metal rack to lock the bikes/scooters in place? What is going to keep people from just dropping them off wherever they want. That was a huge problem in the city with the scooters laying down right in the middle of the sidewalk. 

I think they have a designated section where it has to be dropped or it will continue to charge you 

They are planning on some racks in the future but to start it will be the dedicated drop zones. They have field-swappable batteries instead of the vehicles being taken somewhere to be charged.

LinkUS Update: First 11 Bike and Pedestrian Projects Scheduled for 2026

Last year, leaders of the LinkUS transit initiative unveiled a list of more than 80 different bikeway and sidewalk projects that would be first in line for funding generated by a proposed sales tax increase.

Now, after voters approved that sales tax increase in November and collection began at the beginning of April, the funds are starting to be directed toward those projects. According to the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), work is now scheduled to start next year on at least 11 of them.

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/linkus-update-first-11-bike-and-pedestrian-projects-scheduled-for-2026-bw1/