Specifications include, but are not limited to: The cities of Hopkins, St. Louis Park and Golden Valley are pleased to offer the opportunity to firms with proven scooter and bicycle sharing technology to partner with all three communities to provide a scooter and, if available, bicycle sharing system. The cities’ vision is to make alternative commuting and travel an integral part of daily life for residents and visitors, in addition to making it easy for users to commute between the three communities. A micromobility sharing program helps achieve this vision by making affordable and well-maintained scooters and bicycles available to residents, commuters, and visitors. Benefits for each community includes reduced traffic congestion, improved air quality, quieter streets, expanded transportation choices, increased access to businesses districts such as Hopkins’ Historic Mainstreet, Saint Louis Park’s Historic Walker Lake Area, West End, Knollwood Mall, Downtown Golden Valley at Winnetka Ave and Golden Valley Road, and the opportunity for residents to improve their health through exercise. Micromobility sharing will be an affordable, healthy, safe, environmentally sustainable, and popular component of our community’s transportation options. Implementing a top-quality system will boost the transportation network and continue our efforts to make each of these cities an active and healthy city. The three cities desire to engage one qualified firm to provide services for implementing, operating, and maintaining a highly successful and financially self-sustaining automated self-service bicycle and scooter sharing system for a pilot period, terminating at the end of calendar year 2024. While it’s the preference of the cities to use a dockless system, the micromobility sharing system may consist of “docked” options, “dockless” options, or some combination of the two.
