Today, the city of Washington, DC, opened the east coast's largest bike center. It's the East Coast's first such facility; it is the nation's most state-of-the-art; it features a public-private operating partnership; and it demonstrates that our nation's own capital city offers a model example of the kind of sustainable mobility President Obama's Livable Communities initiative seeks.
Bikestation Washington, DC, sits right next to Union Station, a key access point for Amtrak and MARC commuter rail.
In addition, tens of thousands of DC commuters embark and disembark from an adjacent Metro subway stop. And thousands more live within walking distance of the Bikestation. All of the hundreds of thousands of commuters passing through this hub daily can either ride their bikes to the facility and hop on a train; or they can walk or take transit to the facility then hop on a stored bike to complete their trips.
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