Bike between Short North Shops for FREE

clipped from www2.nbc4i.com By Denise Yost Managing Editor, nbc4i.com Published: August 18, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio—There’s a new way to get around the Short North. It’s free and parking is easy. Residents and visitors don’t need their own bicycles to take part in Everyone Bikes in the Short North, NBC 4‘s Mikaela Hunt reported. You just must be willing to borrow one. “It seems like a no-brainer approach. It makes your neighborhood more approachable and discoverable,“ said Josh Quinn, a store owner and Everyone Bikes organizer. Dave Hunegnaw tried a bike share for people at his business earlier this summer. “It went over so well that we said, ‘Why don’t we do this all over the Short North?‘“ Hunegnaw said. You can now quickly get to all the stores on the Short North corridor that you always wanted to discover, but never had the time. To participate in the program, just check in with the nearly ten businesses already housing some bicycles. They need to see a credit card and driver’s license, but borrowing a bicycle is free.