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First Bike-Share Program In Pioneer Valley To Launch This Week

Jim Duffney on a pedal-assist ValleyBike share bicycle
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    After years of planning, a bicycle-sharing system is launching later this week in several western Massachusetts communities.  

       ValleyBike will debut Thursday in Northampton, Amherst, South Hadley, Holyoke, Springfield and on the campus of UMass Amherst. 

    500 pedal-assist bikes will be available for short-term rent at 50 locations in the participating communities.

    A veterans-owned business, Corps Logistics, has been contracted to operate the bike share service. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the company’s founder and CEO Jim Duffney.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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