Nine months after Baltimore began offering rentable bikes at kiosks, Howard County has taken a page out of the city’s book.

Officials and community partners unveiled the county’s new Bikeshare system at a ceremony yesterday in Columbia. It’s a six-year pilot project consisting of seven kiosks spread around the planned community. There are 70 bikes in all, some of them with the electricity-assisted “Pedelec” option like here in the city. All of them come with baskets and adjustable seating.

Canadian transportation firm Bewegen Technologies, the same company that supplied Baltimore’s Bikeshare bikes, installed the stations around Columbia.

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